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,
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