Re: Kernel Space to User Space Communication in 2.6

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Ramesh wrote:
To pass data from kernel space to user space we can use netlink
sockets. Is there a better or efficient mechanism than netlink in
2.6?? Please advice.

As far as I'm concerned, the best way to pass data from kernelspace to
userspace is through the use of the userspace read(2) syscall.

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