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* Sending messages from kernel
@ 2004-07-12 11:17 Naveen Kumar
  2004-07-12 15:55 ` Eric Bambach
  2004-07-13 13:19 ` Paul Jackson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Naveen Kumar @ 2004-07-12 11:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi,

I was trying to check if you can send a
notification/message from kernel to a user space
daemon.

If you have answers/suggestions please mail me on
this,

Thanks in advance,
Naveen.


		
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* Re: Sending messages from kernel
  2004-07-12 11:17 Sending messages from kernel Naveen Kumar
@ 2004-07-12 15:55 ` Eric Bambach
  2004-07-13 13:19 ` Paul Jackson
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric Bambach @ 2004-07-12 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Naveen Kumar; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Monday 12 July 2004 06:17 am, Naveen Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to check if you can send a
> notification/message from kernel to a user space
> daemon.
>
> If you have answers/suggestions please mail me on
> this,
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Naveen.

Have you seen copy_to_user() and copy_from_user()?

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* Re: Sending messages from kernel
  2004-07-12 11:17 Sending messages from kernel Naveen Kumar
  2004-07-12 15:55 ` Eric Bambach
@ 2004-07-13 13:19 ` Paul Jackson
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul Jackson @ 2004-07-13 13:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Naveen Kumar; +Cc: linux-kernel

Naveen wrote:
> I was trying to check if you can send a
> notification/message from kernel to a user space
> daemon.

Or consider /sbin/hotplug and the kernel routine call_usermodehelper().

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