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On 12/11/14 09:19, Krishnathiepan Rasanayagam wrote:
> Hi All,
>=20
> Has anyone considered using threads in batman-adv?

did you mean kthread? I don't think this would bring any real benefit.
You should probably read/understand the rest of the networking stack in
the linux kernel to understand how incoming/outgoing packets are handled.=


> is is possible to use fork() send.c file?

fork() is a function that is supposed to be used in *userspace* to
create a new *process*.
This is neither available nor conceptually possible in kernel space.

Maybe you should read a bit more about what you can do and what you
cannot do while developing a kernel module? :)

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Antonio Quartulli


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