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SubjectRe: newbie : bottom half
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, ejc wrote:

> > What is a "bottom half " ?
>
> You've probably gotten a dozen responses in private, but in case you
> haven't; Go buy Rubini's book "Linux Device Drivers" (O'Reilly &
> Associates, Inc.) An updated version is in the works, but the version
> that is out will explain much more than just bottom halves. Anyone
> recommend other good resources on this?

"The Linux Kernel" is well worth a read:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html

See chapter 11 ("Kernel mechanisms") for an explanation of
bottom halves.

Matthew.


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