From: aprasad@in.ibm.com
To: Catalin BOIE <util@deuroconsult.ro>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userland -> Kernel communication
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:37:52 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA256991.004E2B59.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com> (raw)
>I wish to give me some pointers to how to communicate with a kernel module
>from userland.
>May I use sockets?
You can use copy_to/from_user functions present in kernel space, provided
you have valid userland pointers
also put_user/get_user for single datum transfer.
regards
Anil
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2000-11-08 14:07 aprasad [this message]
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2000-11-08 12:49 Catalin BOIE
2000-11-08 13:09 ` Klaus Naumann
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