Re: Sending signals to user space program from kernel space

[Sandeep K Sinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Write a daemon in userspace which runs in background and continuously
send ioctl's to your driver and gets the value of i.
If the value of i becomes even, you can write your desired code.

Is this what you wanted ?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:53 PM, rishi agrawal <postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have a char device which when gets ioctl  case 'a' starts a for loop with
> index ' i '.
>
> I want to send the value of index ' i ' to user space whenever ' i ' is
> even.
>
> I want some thing like the kernel space code of char device should send a
> variable and also a 'signal' that it has send a value.
>
> How can it be done ?
>
> Its something like Pipes
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rishi B. Agrawal
>
>



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Regards,
Sandeep.





 	
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