Re: Exporting kernel memory to application

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:31:20 +0100 (BST)

> I am in a situation where it is required to export a kernel memory
> (allocated by kmalloc in the device driver) to the user application. I would
> really appreciate any guidance or suggestion.

Look at the sound drivers, they do this, although with memory allocated
by get_free_pages() - the rest of the theory is the same
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