[android-porting] what is the kernel process to manage the device i/o ctrl?

2010-05-17 Thread chungae9ri
Hi, all. Kernel is composed of many processes like kthreadd, ksoftirqd, ... so what is the process(task) of kernel which respond to the driver I/O control which is called from user space app? -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/andr

Re: [android-porting] what is the kernel process to manage the device i/o ctrl?

2010-05-19 Thread xingchao wang
hi, 2010/5/17 chungae9ri > Hi, all. > Kernel is composed of many processes like kthreadd, ksoftirqd, ... > so what is the process(task) of kernel which respond to the driver I/O > control which is called from user space app? > > That's a mistake concept. User space App communicates with Kernel d

Re: [android-porting] what is the kernel process to manage the device i/o ctrl?

2010-05-20 Thread Deva R
you can communicate from 'ANY' task in user side to kernel side (probably an application talking to a driver), via ioctl calls.. PS. in case of android apps, android java app -> dalvik VM -(JNI)-> native library -(ioctl)-> kernel component On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xingchao wang wrote: