writing a module to expose information

Dave Hylands dhylands at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 02:21:36 EST 2011


Hi Ty,

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
> I'm curious what or where I might begin writing a module that will allow
> a program to retrieve information from it? Essentially: I need some sort
> of interface through which I can request information and get it returned
> somehow.

Your module could create a device driver and you could issue ioctl's
to send/retrieve arbitrary information.

You could use proc entries to set/retrieve information.

These are probably the most common methods to do what you want.

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Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
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