Communications kernel -> userland

[Marc Ramirez]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20030718150047.O61759 at www.bluecirclesoft.com>
>             Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez at bluecirclesoft.com> writes:
> : I have a device driver that needs to make requests for data from a
> : userland daemon.  What's the preferred method for doing this in 4.8R and
> : 5.1R?  I'm assuming the answer is Unix-domain sockets...
>
> what's wrong with a simple read channel?

Nothing except that this is my first real foray into non-trivial kernel
programming. :)

Marc.

> why complicate things by
> bringing sockets into it?
>
> Warner
>
>


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