From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 22:20:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070505202038.GA15168@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178394933.31213.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 20:19 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
2007-05-05 20:20 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-05-05 22:00 ` Alan Cox
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