On Thu, 2007-14-06 at 16:59 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > Hi, Jamal, > > Now the genl utility can find the acpi event genetlink family. > And a simple user space demo is finished for handling acpi event. > I really appreciate your help. :) np. > I think the patch which exposes ACPI events via netlink is ok. > But I still have some problems on > how to listen to specified genetlink family in user space? > > I can get the dynamic id for "acpi_event" genl family. > But I don't know how to use this to receive messages from > specified genl family. > It seems that "#genl ctrl monitor" has something to do with this, > IMO, rtnl_open_byproto(&rth, nl_mgrp(GENL_ID_CTRL), NETLINK_GENERIC) is > used to receive messages from the nlctrl(controller) only, but > unfortunately it never works for me. :( > I dont have much time to look at your code given travel, but did you try to use your group id instead of the controller's? i.e: rtnl_open_byproto(&rth, nl_mgrp(mydiscoveredacpiid), NETLINK_GENERIC) If this doesnt work, ping me and i will take a look - just expect some latency in response. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
