From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761603AbZEMVxp (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 17:53:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752811AbZEMVxg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 17:53:36 -0400 Received: from web32405.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.198]:40695 "HELO web32405.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753159AbZEMVxg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 17:53:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=cNwK0oeoqKM+6SdQSj3AgOeAgPNNAdEVhJpHCT1W0MzGXrYrngi/qAL3OjdZcwGBvFzyyYgFAk9gx4nN+h3ZoXuQgjeL1JsBQHdDzVI7QV3AXeaMHODuPGk4pvr//LrUw1exPhJf3Q3Z/RLTOjXUFQQdwo/Guuu6QJUJGgCyOQM=; Message-ID: <548601.3000.qm@web32405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: CPxLYaQVM1lq43OqDlYxE7ncI9FXd9PqhI6SNaZbCvekIBhKDUkQf8pQnIhsKSzzIMazI0iaUkJxaee.ebC4yOZMZygCFItLrZYBi0oiKmC1iOTzTaXT2bS7Gqj7Zy0lvR8AQ5T4seFDafqWW.DStOQoYXTWggXkrdQ_hf62tV4WgK46n5Z.n1OQBedULgmtafj3UwWJ5DLDMapLXM2rN5pQpTeXmLU9WJ123MW_AdXsNOMSMJ8OvsKVT3SDlyusAhHcFhUJWnlGiXcTwyy1Y7ioEmi63AiEUr2d8Mq5AEmWMedqww0- X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/5.2.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.10 Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:53:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Anil kumar Subject: send signal with data from driver To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I want to send a event notification from the driver to registered applications. I am using kill_async( ) with SIGIO. But with this I cannot send any data along with the signal. Is there a way to send data (buffer or a int number) along with the signal from the driver. With regards, Anil