Re: Passing references to kobjects between userland and kernel

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:48:54AM +0200, Daniele Orlandi wrote:
> On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:58, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Use the kobject_uevent() call from kernelspace to let userspace know
> > whatever you want it to.  That is what it is there for :)
> 
> kobject_uevent() is fine if I want to asynchronously notify the user space of 
> an event.
> 
> What I need is a synchronous bidirectional interface, e.g. I tell the kernel 
> "connect node X with node Y" and I get back the resulting pipeline 
> identifier.

Why do you feel that this is a requirement?  What exactly are you trying
to do?

thanks,

greg k-h
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