Re: interrupt handling w/o handler?

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:30:30 +0100 (GMT)


On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I think if you need to handle irq handling from userspace you need a
> helper kernel driver (as the ppuser does). Then you can sleep in
> select(2).

Yes. Incidentally, it's called ppdev now that it's actually in the
kernel, and interrupt-reporting doesn't work yet. I'm just about to try
to change that.

The idea is that select wakes up with the fd set in in readfds whenever an
interrupt happens.

Tim.
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