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SubjectRE: How to notify a user process from within a driver
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Richard and Alan,

Thank you for the info. Given the prototype for poll() is
"int poll(struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout);", and pollfd
is struct pollfd {int fd; short events; short revents};, how do I
communicate complex info to the driver?

For example, assuming there are 8 input lines on my hardware, and the user
wants to be notified in the following three cases:
1) input on Line 1 only,
2) input on either Line 2 or Line 3,
3) input on both Line 4 and Line 5,
how do I pass that info to the driver? Also, other than POLLERR and POLLHUP,
can I pass back to the user more descriptive error messages?

Thanks,
Shuyu


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B. Johnson [mailto:root@chaos.analogic.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 3:32 PM
To: Lee, Shuyu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to notify a user process from within a driver

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Lee, Shuyu wrote:

> Hello, All.
>
> I am working on a device driver. One of the features of the hardware is
> multi-channel I/O control. In order for a user process to communicate with
> the hardware, my design is for the user process to call the driver's ioctl
> to register a semaphore for each I/O channel, then wait on them. When the
> hardware detects an input, the ISR then BH will wake up the user process.
> This sounds straightforward in principle. Because there are two types of
> semaphores in Linux (one for kernel, and one for user), I am not sure how
> this can be accomplished. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> My development environment is:
> 1) OS: RedHat 7.2 (Linux 2.4.7),
> 2) gcc: 3.2.1,
> 3) PC: one P-III (HP kayak) with 128Mbyte of memory,
> 4) Bus: PCI.
>
> Shuyu
>

You normally use poll() or select() for this. It's called poll()
inside the driver.

The user-mode code sleeps in poll() or select(). When your
driver ISR wants to wake up the process, it calls
wake_up_interruptible() from within the ISR.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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