Re: Best way to communicate to a device.

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On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:19:27PM +0530, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking for the best ways user land application can talk to drivers.
> I need a ioctl kind of mechanism. I believe new IOCTL cann't be added to kernel
> without prior permissions (static allocations?). If this is the case what is
> the best way user land application can talk to a driver?

It all depends on what type of driver, and what your communication goals
are (small ammounts of data, high data rates, binary data, etc.)

In short, we need more details.

thanks,

greg k-h

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