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* Re: Using IPCSysV in a device driver
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@ 2001-03-03  9:39 ` Dan Maas
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From: Dan Maas @ 2001-03-03  9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nathalie Barat; +Cc: linux-kernel

> I am wondering if it is permitted to use message queues between a user
> application and a device driver module...
> Can anyone help me?

It may be theoretically possible, but an easier and much more common
approach to this type of thing is for the driver to export an mmap()
interface. You could synchronize using poll() I think...

Regards,
Dan


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* Using IPCSysV in a device driver
@ 2001-03-02 18:10 Nathalie Barat
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From: Nathalie Barat @ 2001-03-02 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel



I am wondering if it is permitted to use message queues between a user
application and a device driver module...
Can anyone help me?

Thank you
Nathalie Barat

Please CC to me...



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