Send/receive ATA cmds from a linux kernel module

[Siddhartha Baral]

I don't have any code yet and was doing the design analysis part. I will
try some experimental stuff soon and then move from there I guess. BTW,
thanks for your time!

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:27:26AM -0600, Siddhartha Baral wrote:
> > I think it needs a much bigger change i.e need to move the framework to
> kernel
> > space to control this from user space.
>
> I don't understand, what framework do you have to move?  Userspace can
> read the temperature and then do whatever it wants to do (i.e. send
> commands to your cooling system).
>
> > In short, I need to get this done in kernel as I want this module to fit
> in the
> > current framework. Please suggest if you have any implementation
> specific idea
> > for this.
>
> Do you have a pointer to your code somewhere that we can see what you
> are doing and have tried that did not work out?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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