Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932896AbWLNUnz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:43:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932900AbWLNUnz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:43:55 -0500 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:44722 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932896AbWLNUnz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:43:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20061213195226.GA6736@kroah.com> <1166044471.11914.195.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:47:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1166129262.29505.120.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 647 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 09:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > I don't get you. The rtc module does something similar (RTC generates > > interrupts and notifies userspace about it) > > The RTC module knows how to shut the interrupt up. The kernel part of the UIO driver also knows how to shut the interrupt up, so where is the difference ? tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/