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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...>
To: Jinkai Gao <mickeygjk@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for itself
Date: Monday, July 7, 2008 - 4:40 am

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Jinkai Gao <mickeygjk@gmail.com> wrote:

Did you already have a look at e.g. http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ for
suggestions of alternatives for communication between userspace and
kernel modules ? Alternatives to system calls are e.g. ioctl's, memory
mapped I/O and sockets. The last alternative is used by udevd
(PF_NETLINK).

Bart.
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Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for itself, Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 1:09 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jul 7, 5:35 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 10:00 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Josh Boyer, (Mon Jul 7, 10:16 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu..., (Mon Jul 7, 12:33 pm)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Bart Van Assche, (Mon Jul 7, 4:40 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 8:36 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jul 7, 10:42 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Bart Van Assche, (Mon Jul 7, 10:16 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Jul 7, 3:01 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 8:12 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for it..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Jul 7, 10:29 am)