linux-kernel - Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

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

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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