Re: Preferred userspace IPC mechanism for new drivers?

2015-05-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:07:46PM +, Larrew, Jesse wrote: Hello, I’m writing a driver that needs to communicate with userspace applications. What type of driver? Userspace needs to be able to send commands and associated data to the driver, so the ioctl interface seems pretty

Preferred userspace IPC mechanism for new drivers?

2015-05-06 Thread Larrew, Jesse
Hello, I’m writing a driver that needs to communicate with userspace applications. Userspace needs to be able to send commands and associated data to the driver, so the ioctl interface seems pretty straightforward. However, LDD3 states that new ioctls in the kernel are a no-no. If that’s the