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From: Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>
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Subject: Re: Handling NMI in a kernel module
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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

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