kernel upcall documentation

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Konstantinos Boukis wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I am not quite sure whether this is the correct list, my problem is that I want
> > to send an upcall from the kernel to userland to load a module (kernel threads
> > cannot call linker_load_module since they do not have a  valid fd_cdir). Is
> > there any document describing how to make an upcall from the kernel to
> > userland?
>
> This is not how you want to do it.  Do it the old fashioned
> way, with a read() or ioctl() from userland that blocks until
> the kernel is ready to have the module loaded.

Or find some other way to do it within the kernel...

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DE