Re: Kernel user communication mechanism

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Konstantin Zertsekel <zertsekel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Was having a look at the netlink sockets. What will be the behaviour for
> sending an event which is blocking on the response from user-space the queue
> is full. How this case will be handled.
>
> Also fanotify makes use of fsnotify's notification mechanism to send events
> and get response from kernel. Is it possible to send event from user-space
> to kernel space in -case of fanotify.

Why is it interesting?
What is the story behind?
--- Kosta

I need to move the IP in user-space which currently is as a proprietary module and release the kernel component as GPL.

So for decision making I require this communication.

Any help in terms of ideas or existing solutions would be appreciable.

Also Greg please if you could help me out :)

Regards,
Rohan Puri
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