Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2007 22:20:38 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space |
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On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:55:33PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 21:17 +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote: > > afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm > > woking on atm and are so far not sure if I'm going to implement such a > > generic interface or just write a simple driver that does the job for my > > application. So I'd like to find out what the chances are that such a > > feature will get accepted in the official kernel.. > > Please take a look at drivers/uio, which is currently in -mm and on the > way to mainline.
UIO is featured in latest LWN kernel edition (subscribers only until Thursday). That may help to get an overview.
http://lwn.net
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