Re: exposing kernel driver to user space app

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:30:21AM -0700, ilya wrote:
> hello,
> 
> according to this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/149807/
> configfs and sysfs are practically the same thing.

They work much the same way internally, but are used for vastly
different things.  So no, they are not the same at all.

> i think i am going to give netlink sockets a try instead, if that
> won't work i'll stick w/ sysfs.

Please no, do not use sysfs this way.  Your code will never be able to
be merged into the main kernel tree if you do so.

thanks,

greg k-h

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