Re: [LKDP] mmap driver entry point

[Abhishek Nayani]

Hi,

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002, Ankit wrote:

> Iam trying to understand the mmap entry point for a
> driver.
> This is how the mmap() is implemented 
> 

        mmap() is usually used to map a file from some secondary 
storage into RAM. So the drivers (usually fs code) implement the mmap()
function (which is specific to the filesystem) which is called by the 
generic do_mmap() routine. 

                                        bye,
                                                Abhi.
        
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