From: Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Isabelle, Francois" <Francois.Isabelle@ca.kontron.com>,
"Linux-Ha (E-mail)" <linux-ha@muc.de>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Handling NMI in a kernel module
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:30:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4213D4.6020705@unix.sh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1027735557.15951.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
Alan Cox wrote:
> I've been tracking other lists. The current state is very much that we
> need the dual notifier. I now have some draft code that allows us to do
> this even on hardware that doesn't support it, and where the read()
> function gets told when an event is about to occur
I know what had been requested from the telco crowd was the ability to
register a function to get called (in the kernel) when an event was about to
occur.
I'm not sure what it means to say that "the read() function gets told when
an event is about to occur".
-- Alan Robertson
alanr@unix.sh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-27 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-23 17:37 Handling NMI in a kernel module Isabelle, Francois
2002-07-23 18:27 ` John Levon
2002-07-23 22:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-26 21:55 ` Alan Robertson
2002-07-27 2:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-27 3:30 ` Alan Robertson [this message]
2002-07-27 12:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-27 13:50 ` Alan Robertson
2002-07-27 3:44 ` Jonathan Lundell
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