On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 10:20 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:58 +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote: > > That would be a very fast and easy to implement solution, but then I > > have to touch the kernel again. I wanted not to do that. > > > > > But i guess a better variant would be to adopt the IIO framework > > > for your purpose (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/30/22) > > > > Great, seems like that's what I'm searching for. I will have a deeper > > look into this. Because if this is going to be in the mainline kernel, I > > don't have to touch the kernel at all. > > You have to touch it. You still need to write a kernel module which > handles the interrupt in the first place. > But wouldn't it be a good idea to create a kernel driver which offers an abstract interface and add it to the mainline kernel or to the preempt patch? So that handling interrupts can really just happen by coding a userspace program? Or is there no way to accomplish that? Sorry if this questions may sound stupid, I'm not that deep in the code,.. yet. --peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
