Basic Driver Development Questions.

[Nikolay Denev]

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On 4 Nov, 2008, at 17:50 , Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Joe Pellegrino <jdp at elvis.rowan.edu> [081103 16:30] wrote:
>> I am trying to develop a small kernel module and I wanted to ask some
>> questions about implementation. First, there is a component of Linux,
>> called netlink, which permits IPC communication between a userspace  
>> app
>> and kernel module using sockets. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent? I  
>> know you
>> can do this with IOCTL and perhaps through proc but I would prefer  
>> using a
>> technique similar to netlink.
>>
>> Toward that I am looking at netgraph (ng_socket) but have run into  
>> some
>> trouble mostly related to inexperience with netgraph. So basically:
>>
>> 1. Is there something similar to netlink?
>>
>> 2. Would that be NetGraph?
>>
>> 3. If not what is it?
>>
>> I do have further questions depending on how these are answered.  
>> Thanks
>> for your help. :)
>
> Hey Joe, can you give a link to us that explains what "netlink" is
> and how to use it?  examples and such?
>
> thank you,
> -- 
> - Alfred Perlstein
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Hi,

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3549.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlink

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7356 (this one is a bit dated, but  
has some examples)


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Regards,
Nikolay Denev




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