On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Another reason is to make things easier to extend. Adding a parameter
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> Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>Can someone please explain why are netlink sockets a better
>>communication method between kernel space and userspace ?
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to a netlink message is as easy as adding an additional netlink
attribute. User space applications that has not been updated to
support your change, will not see this parameter as it is unknown to
them when processing the attributes. Extending an ioctl would mean
adding new paramteres to the struct that is passed to/from the kernel,
which will cause all kinds of problems. For example, how to avoid
overflows when returning it to user space.
-Kristian
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Hi,
This should give you a lot of insight http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~arkeller/linux/kernel_user_space_howto.html
- Rohan
- Rohan
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