On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:44:45PM +0530, Prasuna Chatla hit keys to express the following: > I am writing linux device driver. Whenever the driver receives any interrupts, > it needs to initiate a signal to the application about the data received in > the interrupt. I was planning to use a select system call for the driver. Does > any one have idea of signal interface between the kernel and the application? Please fix your line length. Why do you need to do this? cannot you use blocking read/ poll? If you must send a signal, you can use send_signal() call from the interrupt handler. You can manually insert the prepared siginfo struct as well, but send_signal is preferable. HTH, Om. -- I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. (alt.fan.pratchett) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
