Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 15:44:14 EST


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 09:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > I don't get you. The rtc module does something similar (RTC generates
> > interrupts and notifies userspace about it)
>
> The RTC module knows how to shut the interrupt up.

The kernel part of the UIO driver also knows how to shut the interrupt
up, so where is the difference ?

tglx



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