Dear Everyone, Forgive me for abusing this list, but I'm not sure where else to direct my mail to for this question. In a kernel loadable module, I'm using netlink_unicast to send messages back to userland. In most cases we assume this passes, but the function is written as an int and can fail. In that case there's no way to notify userland that a message isn't coming back and depending on the api used in userland we're waiting forever for an answer. In case netlink_unicast fails, the skb is freed, but when it passes it isn't? I'm wondering how to treat the case where it fails, or should I use another api to send messages back to userspace all together? Thanks,
Reinoud.
