Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

[Sam Ravnborg]

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

	Sam
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