Have you looked into using the notification chains?  Registering to this
chains (via notifier_chain_register) will notify you about the event by
invoking your callback function.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Martin Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to this list and also to kernel development.
>
> I'd like to get notified when some specific event happen in the kernel,
> like for example when a network interface goes up, or when a new wireless
> Access Point has been discovered. In fact, all the events I'd like to catch
> are broadcasted over netlink.
>
> I found a lot of documentation about the communication between kernel and
> userland using netlink, but could hardly find documentation about kernel to
> kernel netlink usage.
>
> What's the appropriate mechanism to catch the events I'm interested in? And
> provided opening a netlink socket in the kernel is the way to go, could you
> point me to relevant documentation or code example?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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