Re: netlink question

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I need to communicate between two parts of the kernel (a core TCP part,
> and a loaded module), Andi suggested to use netlink for this purpose.
>
> Since I'm not too familiar with Netlink (and I saw only userspace-kernel
> communication using netlink), I'd need some introductory material about
> netlink. Is some information about the subject available? Sample code would
> be sufficient as well.
>

Look at notifier_chain_un/register(),un/register_netdevice_notifier(),
and their usage. You could also look at the usage of netdev_state_change()

cheers,
jamal