Hi,

My aim is to edit an ethernet device driver file so as to call a bin file in /usr/sbin. I am working in an ATMEL board. How can I call a user app when in kernel mode? Is there anything as sweet and short as a sytem() call (no high hopes)? If not so, any work-arounds that you can suggest?

Thanks
Maas

I think you are asking how you can edit a file which is owned by user 'root' or some other user that you don't have privilege to edit. Right?

If that's what you need to do, and you know the superuser (root) password, you can use the su command to temporarily become root. You'll be prompted for the password for root. Be careful. You'll have awesome power until you execute exit to return to mere mortal status.

Alternately, if the /etc/sudoers file is configured correctly (as it always is on Ubuntu), you can use the sudo command on each command. You'll be prompted for your own password, (not root's). Naturally, you can use whatever editor is installed: emacs, vi, vim, nano, joe, nedit, etc. e.g.:

sudo nano filename

I think this is near what you're looking for: a framework for user-space device on Linux
http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/fusd/README

Hi,

I think I've been misunderstood. I am compiling the ethernet device-driver statically while building the kernel itself. The device-driver activates a function when the ethernet link is up. At this point I want to call a dhcp function for dynamically assigning an IP to my board. This dhcpc bin file is in /bin/udhcpc file in my initial ram disk. Whatever calls to the user space I need to do, should be precompiled while building the kernel. So, my question is, how can I call this bin fiel in kernel mode? And I am not into building modules.

Thanks
Maas