Hi Grag, I have already tried kobject_uevent. I thought kobject_uevent will notify about the changes. But that didn't work. I think netlink is the only way to asynchronously communicate with user space. Is there any other way?
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:56:19PM +0530, Prashant Bhole wrote: > > Hi, > > Can I user inotify with sysfs? > > No. > > > I have a kernel module which has exported its attributes in sysfs. Also, > I > > have a user space program which needs to be notified about changes in > > attributes in sysfs. I tried using inotify but not working out. > > See above :) > > Use select to detect changes in sysfs files. Or at the worse case, a > kobject CHANGE event, but be careful about using those, as they wake up > a lot of userspace when they are created. > > Hope this helps, > > greg k-h > Thanks, -- ~p~r~a~s~h~a~n~t~
