So I want to get some kernel routine called....

2013-04-16 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Folks, It's that BSD engineer again, trying to do something in linux and unable to see the _linux_ way to do it ;-) I have some kernel routine I'd like to get called, with the decision to call it made in user space. Obviously I could do this by making it into a full blown system call, but

Re: So I want to get some kernel routine called....

2013-04-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:33:17 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: I have some kernel routine I'd like to get called, with the decision to call it made in user space. The proper answer here is *highly* dependent on exactly what this routine has to do once it's called. Can you explain the problem the