Re: Asychronous messages to user-land

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On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:36, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
>   I wanted to send asynchronous messages from my
> kernel module to applications through a device. From
> 'Linux Device Drivers', I get the idea that SIGIO is
> the method. But I wanted to pass some data along with
> it as well, which does'nt seem possible through SIGIO.
> Note that i need to pass the data EXACTLY along the
> asychronous signal.

You want to implement a simple character device where your application
can use poll/select. An on the following read() your device driver
delivers exactly what is correct.

	Bernd
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