Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:53:55 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Passing references to kobjects between userland and kernel |
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:48:54AM +0200, Daniele Orlandi wrote: > On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:58, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Use the kobject_uevent() call from kernelspace to let userspace know > > whatever you want it to. That is what it is there for :) > > kobject_uevent() is fine if I want to asynchronously notify the user space of > an event. > > What I need is a synchronous bidirectional interface, e.g. I tell the kernel > "connect node X with node Y" and I get back the resulting pipeline > identifier.
Why do you feel that this is a requirement? What exactly are you trying to do?
thanks,
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