Re: Device driver question

[Joe deBlaquiere <jadb@redhat.com>]

How about just write a driver that responds to the interrupt, and write
a program that does a blocking read from the driver. The driver read
routine stuff the program on a wait queue... until... interrupt occurs,
wake up the program, program does exec(/sbin/halt) ?

This could actually be made into a good demonstration of driver
programming in that you could hook the parport interrupt and do it with
any PC.... 

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:36, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Uttered "Bloch, Jack" <Jack.Bloch@icn.siemens.com>, spoke thus:
> 
> > I have a specific case where our HW can generate a
> >  special interrupt. In this case I simply want the ISR to halt the system
> >  (i.e. take the same action as if I typed halt from the command line). How
> >  can I from within my device driver cause a halt? Please CC me specifically
> >  on any replies.
> 
> Check out the code for "sys_reboot" in "kernel/sys.c" for ideas on how to do
> this.  I don't think you can invoke "sys_reboot" from inside an interrupt
> handler, but you could probably do the same thing by calling the service
> routines "sys_reboot" does.
> 
> If that doesn't shut your machine down gracefully, then you might resort to
> "call_usermodehelper" in "kernel/kmod.c" to run "/sbin/shutdown -h now".  You
> can't invoke "call_usermodehelper" from an interrupt top half, but it should
> work find from a tasklett.
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