From 7672d0b54411371e0b6a831c1cb2f0ce615de6dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:15:07 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Add netlink connector. Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus direction. Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called. From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward: socket(); bind(); send(); recv(); But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly easier way: int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); struct cb_id { __u32 idx; __u32 val; }; idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val will be received by connector core. Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's users. Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket. [ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and Andrew Morton -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig index 46d655fab115..48f446d3c671 100644 --- a/drivers/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/Kconfig @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ menu "Device Drivers" source "drivers/base/Kconfig" +source "drivers/connector/Kconfig" + source "drivers/mtd/Kconfig" source "drivers/parport/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.2.2