Prabhu nath wrote: > But if the device has to generate an interrupt on the reception of the data > then it is best for the driver code to be in the kernel space waiting for > the data, rather than in the user space because there is no efficient > mechanism till now for the control to be transferred to the waiting user > space code on the reception of the interrupt.
What are the curently available mechanisms for an interrupt to propagate into user space? Is there one that affects the scheduler? - Gergely _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
