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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: intercommunications between Linux kernel modules
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:04:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28vox36cm.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOzbF4dvtM5WJ9-LkP4tFROA_gnT-gh-+-3qJLSqtUKOp0SvMg@mail.gmail.com> (Cyclonus J.'s message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:53:05 -0700")

Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for a way to do an IPC-like communications between two
> linux kernel modules, such as mqueue or shared memory. After searching
> for a while, I can't find such information available inside existing
> linux kernel or online.
>
> So, my question is if this is something discussed before here and gets
> rejected or still might be accepted in the mainstream kernel tree?

All kernel memory is shared in Linux, so the concept doesn't make sense.

If you want to send messages or communicate inside the kernel there are
lots of different facilities available.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07  1:53 intercommunications between Linux kernel modules Cyclonus J
2011-10-07  2:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-10-07  2:59   ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-07  4:00     ` david
2011-10-07  4:10       ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-07 17:41         ` Christoph Lameter

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