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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Hayes <kevin@atheros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: Existing netlink kernel <--> kernel communication
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:04:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250543073.30166.100.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890908171137v73732ea3g957e574eae3a81d8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Luis,

> Was curious if there are existing use cases of netlink for kernel <-->
> kernel communication rather than the typical kernel <--> userspace.
> The original RFC 3549 [1] does specify it could have been used for
> "intra-kernel messaging", but am just not aware of existing use cases.
> A pointer could help.

I would use direct function calls for kernel to kernel communication. No
need to put any messaging system in between.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 18:37 Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 21:04 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
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2010-07-19 18:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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