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From: Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Handling large amounts of data
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 18:15:13 -0400
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On 5/15/05, Silimite <silimite@gmail.com> wrote:=20
> My question is, what is the best way to communicate all these ranges
> from user-space into the kernel module?   I am currently loading them
> via procfs.  Is this an acceptable method or should I be looking at
> something else?  It certainly works great but I would like it to be as
> "proper" as possible.

A unicast netlink socket would almost certainly be the best way to go
here. For examples on how to use unicast netlink sockets, look at
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c or net/core/rtnetlink.c.

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