Re: communication between userspace and kernelspace

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:56 AM, niranjan puram
<puram.niranjan.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No heavy data transfer, I just want to set variables dynamically from
> the user space. So i think declaring a kernel module parameter and
> changing it through the /proc file system should solve the problem.
> Also this is the first time I am programming in kernel :) so please
> bear with me. Is there an exhaustive documentation as to how to do it?
> Thanks in advance.

/proc is now really only to be for per process type info.  I know
there is lots of old stuff that is still per system.

New per system variables are supposed to use sysfs  (ie. /sys)

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