Kernel user communication mechanism

[rohan puri]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Konstantin Zertsekel
<zertsekel at gmail.com>wrote:

> > Was having a look at the netlink sockets. What will be the behaviour for
> > sending an event which is blocking on the response from user-space the
> queue
> > is full. How this case will be handled.
> >
> > Also fanotify makes use of fsnotify's notification mechanism to send
> events
> > and get response from kernel. Is it possible to send event from
> user-space
> > to kernel space in -case of fanotify.
>
> Why is it interesting?
> What is the story behind?
> --- Kosta
>

I need to move the IP in user-space which currently is as a proprietary
module and release the kernel component as GPL.

So for decision making I require this communication.

Any help in terms of ideas or existing solutions would be appreciable.

Also Greg please if you could help me out :)

Regards,
Rohan Puri
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