From: Tony Cheung (tony_at_astri.org)
Date: 2002-06-17 02:00:38 UTC
Hi All,
I am trying to add some kernel and user space communication in the HostAP driver. I am trying to use the netlink mechanism for sending a netlink message within the HostAP driver to a user space program.
Indeed, I have succesfully tested one case by sending a netlink message within handle_assoc() (prism2_ap.c). However, when I try to send a netlink message from within the ap_handle_timer(), the kernel just hangs when the sock_sendmsg() is called.
I have used these few calls when sending out a netlink message,
sock_create(), sock_sendmsg() and sock_release()
I am using the prism2 2002-05-19 version and linux 2.4.7
Any advice? Is there anything special about the ap_handle_timer() call that I need to be aware of?
Thank you very much!
Tony Cheung