Subject: Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de
To: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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References: <20070505191707.GA9300@clifford.at>
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Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 21:55:33 +0200
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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


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