In message <1209331913.8768.214.camel@ragnarok>,Jeremy Jackson writes:

who cares about ATM?  Well anyone using ADSL/2/2+ high speed internet
access is stuck with it, and that's not a small number of people.

i still care.

The question: what is the recommended way to push the captured cells to
userspace?  raw ATM socket, netlink, packet socket, i'm not up to speed
here people!

the right way is netlink.  i have some patches to add more complete
oam support but they use the current ioctl interface which should be
considered deprecated.  so adding new functionality using this interface
to the kernel, would likely be rejected.

eventually, all the atm clients (zeppelin, atmsigd, et al) should be
converted to using netlink.

in 2.6.22 drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c::usbatm_extract_one_cell()

cells received for open PVC/SVC sockets are processed, however OAM cells
are dropped, and cells to unbound VPI/VCI are dropped.

This seems the likely place to route cells somewhere useful, but what
mechanism to use?

i guess now might be the time to try to define a netlink interface
between the userspace and the kernel.