> Why would you want to? Just grab the packets from userspace, and then > send them to your driver from userspace. You can do blocking reads much > easier that way, and don't have to worry about internal file handles, > and getting the segment registers correct, and other such stuff. Wouldn't there be a performance penalty in this case ? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/