Re: NEWBEE "reverse ioctl" or someting like

From: Nikolas Zimmermann (wildfox@kde.org)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 07:51:26 EST


On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:29, sébastien person wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've made a network driver wich is attached to the serial port.
> The network hardware is able to return information to the pc. theses
> informations are belong to the configuration of the hardware. I
yes yes all your base are belong to us :)
> succeed on receive information in the driver but I've no idea to alert
> higher process (like configuration app ...) that I've received something
> (wich is not network data like TCP or ARP etc ...).
>
> I think that use of pipe isn't preconised because I must fork process
> to use pipe, I search something like ioctl but in the other way :
>
> kernel process ---> user process
>
> Is somebody know the best and easy way ??
copy_to_user ?
>
> thank (I hope this is the right place to ask)
>
> sebastien person
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Bye
 Bye
  Niko

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