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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 21:55:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178394933.31213.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070505191707.GA9300@clifford.at>

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.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-05 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-05 19:17 Interrupt-Handling in User Space Clifford Wolf
2007-05-05 19:55 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-05-05 20:20   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-05 22:00 ` Alan Cox

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