From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759469Ab1JGCEK (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:04:10 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:12810 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759236Ab1JGCEJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:04:09 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,499,1312182000"; d="scan'208";a="71125455" From: Andi Kleen To: Cyclonus J Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: intercommunications between Linux kernel modules References: Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:04:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Cyclonus J.'s message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:53:05 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) 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 Cyclonus J 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