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From: "Dan Maas" <dmaas@dcine.com>
To: "Nathalie Barat" <nbarat@cirpack.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using IPCSysV in a device driver
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 04:39:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005401c0a3c5$d0b71c80$0701a8c0@morph> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.l0ns1gv.i6sloa@ifi.uio.no>

> I am wondering if it is permitted to use message queues between a user
> application and a device driver module...
> Can anyone help me?

It may be theoretically possible, but an easier and much more common
approach to this type of thing is for the driver to export an mmap()
interface. You could synchronize using poll() I think...

Regards,
Dan


       reply	other threads:[~2001-03-03  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.l0ns1gv.i6sloa@ifi.uio.no>
2001-03-03  9:39 ` Dan Maas [this message]
2001-03-02 18:10 Using IPCSysV in a device driver Nathalie Barat

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