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From: David Hawkins <dwh@ovro.caltech.edu>
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Hi Mirek,

>     I would like to send signals from the interrupt handler
> routine (in the kernel) to the user application (in user space).
> I have googled on that net and I have found that it could be done with the
> function: kill_proc_info.

Look in Rubini for the section regarding asynchronous
notification, Ch 6.

The callback to generate SIGIO is fasync.

Cheers
Dave