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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: how to report network device errors to userspace?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:54:06 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:44:05PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > I would suggest sending a netlink message from the driver.  That's really
> > what netlink was designed for.
> 
> Can you point me to a driver that's done this cleanly as an example to follow?

Not exactly a driver, but you can e.g. look at the ip_queue netfilter 
module.

-Andi