From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Amol Kumar Lad <amolk@ishoni.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel notification to user space task
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:06:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020329200658.GE14216@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7CFD7CA8510CD6118F950002A519EA3001067CAA@leonoid.in.ishoni.com>
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,
greg k-h
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-29 20:07 UTC|newest]
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2002-03-29 20:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-03-29 17:27 kernel notification to user space task Hari Gadi
[not found] <mailman.1017422340.6661.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-03-29 17:27 ` Pete Zaitcev
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