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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:37:20 -0700
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Subject: Existing netlink kernel <--> kernel communication
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Cc: Kevin Hayes <kevin@atheros.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
       Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
       Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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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.

[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3549.html

  Luis