{"id":8022,"date":"2022-03-03T06:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2023-09-15T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:24:43","slug":"write-method-in-linux-device-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/write-method-in-linux-device-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Device Driver Programming Lecture 42- Understanding write method"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to left, #eeeeee, #eeeeee);\" data-bg-color-1=\"#EEEEEE\" data-bg-color-2=\"#EEEEEE\" data-bg-direction=\"to left\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 35px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-image: linear-gradient(to left, #eeeeee, #eeeeee);\" data-bg-color-1=\"#EEEEEE\" data-bg-color-2=\"#EEEEEE\" data-bg-direction=\"to left\">\n<div class=\"col-md-1 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 col-lg-1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-10 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 col-lg-10\">\n<h1 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>Understanding write method<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"row bg-editor-hr-wrap\" style=\"border-width: 0px; margin-top: -25px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-hr bg-hr-10 color2-color\" style=\"border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 3px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In the previous article, you successfully <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/linux-device-driver-programming-lecture-41-read-method-implementation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implemented the read method<\/a><\/span>. Now, let&#8217;s discuss the write method.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8025\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8025\" src=\"http:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4.png\" alt=\"Figure 1. Write method copy data from user space to kernel space\" width=\"559\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4.png 559w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4-120x67.png 120w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4-500x279.png 500w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4-200x112.png 200w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-1-4-400x223.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Figure 1. Write method copy data from user space to kernel space<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What is write? <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"background-color: #07467d; border-width: 0px; font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffff00;\">Write means, copy data from user space to the kernel space. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In our case, we have to copy data from the user buffer to our device memory buffer. For this, we are going to use copy_from_user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the steps what you should be following in this a write method is exactly similar to what you have done in read method. Instead of&nbsp; copy_to_user, you have to use copy_from_user. That&#8217;s it.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other steps will be the same.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8026\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3.png\" alt=\"Linux device driver\" width=\"588\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3.png 588w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3-120x55.png 120w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3-500x230.png 500w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3-200x92.png 200w, https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Figure-2-3-400x184.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Figure 2. Steps following in this write method<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And you should be careful with the return value here. You should return number of bytes successfully written or error code. You should not return 0 here. So, when you adjust this &#8216;count&#8217; and if count turns be 0, that means there is no memory left in the device memory buffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s why you should be returning the error code ENOMEM. In the case of read, it was fine.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can return 0 saying nothing to read. But in the case of write, you cannot return 0 saying&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nothing to write. You cannot do that. I hope you can take care of that scenario. Not able to write anything means no memory left on the device. We should return a appropriate error code.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would suggest you to go back to the code and try to implement this write method.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Get the Full Course On Linux Device Driver <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/linux-device-driver-programming-using-beaglebone-black\/\">Here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-weight: 400;\" data-font-family=\"Roboto Slab\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>FastBit Embedded Brain Academy Courses<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">C<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lick here:<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/course1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/course1<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Understanding write method &nbsp; &nbsp; In the previous article, you successfully implemented the read method. 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