Re: exposing kernel driver to user space app

[kashif saeed <kashif_linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

netlink sockets will definitely work if you need some help regarding netlink socket let me know

ilya <jibberboosh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hello,

according to this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/149807/
configfs and sysfs are practically the same thing. i think
i am going to give netlink sockets a try instead, if that
won't work i'll stick w/ sysfs.
thank you for your reply.

-- ilya

On 8/9/07, pradeep singh <2500.pradeep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/9/07, ilya wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> [...]
> >
> > i have a feeling, however, that i am abusing this method.
> > what is the appropriate way of setting this up? is there
> > a way for the module to notify an application of some
> > event happening? because right now i do this by
> > constantly reading from one of the files in sysfs until
> > the value it holds changes. i also know that reading
> > files from kernel-mode is not a good thing, but i want
> > to implement something of a config file that can be
> > modified from user-space but would be read in by
> > the module. what is the best way of doing this?
>
> Not sure whether this is the best way or not but i guess you should
> have a look at config fs too. AFAIR it is used to send notifications
> from kernel to userspace in a cleaner way.
>
> Does this solves your problem somehow?
>
> thanks
> >
> > any info is much appreciated.
> >
> > -- ilya
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