Re: V2 API

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough-hd8OpYRHSlec/75gGNOK3g@public.gmane.org>]

On Friday 30 Sep 2011, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:34:38 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 Sep 2011, David Goodenough wrote:
> > > Doing a Google search looking to see if there was userland support
> > > for SMBALERT messages I saw references to the V2 API which last year
> > > was "being developed".  Did this happen, and is it defined anywhere?
> > 
> > I take it from the fact that no-one has replied, that the V2 API is
> > not being worked on or has stalled.
> 
> I take it from the fact that no-one has replied, that "V2 API" is an
> awfully vague subject line, so odds are that nobody read your post in
> the first place. Try to come up with a better subject line next time.
It was the only name I found for any effort to address this problem.
And that was from a message which I think was on this mailing list about
a year ago.
> 
> > Is there any way using the
> > existing API for userland code to be notified of an incomming
> > SMBALERT?
> 
> Not that I know of, and I wasn't even aware that efforts had ever been
> ongoing to achieve this.
So I take it that the only way to do this would be to write a kernel
driver?

David