Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:06:58 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: kernel notification to user space task |
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:50:13PM +0530, Amol Kumar Lad wrote: > > for example..if my driver detects that interface 'eth0' is coming up, it > should send a indication to user task saying 'network interface eth0 is up'
If this is not just a hypothetical example, this kind of userspace notification is already present in the kernel. /sbin/hotplug gets called when ever any network interface is brought up or down. See the documentation at linux-hotplug.sf.net for more information if you're curious.
thanks,
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