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
One that I know is through proc interface where the interrupt info is
lodged in a file in /proc and the user code keeps polling on this file.
Exact use of this is to be looked for.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Prabhu nath wrote:
But if the device
On May 13, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I learned, e.g. from here that user space device drivers are indeed possible:
http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-2-sect-9
Are there serious user space drivers in Linux? Could you name a few?
Or, is this just
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I learned, e.g. from here that user space device drivers are indeed possible:
http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-2-sect-9
Are there serious user space drivers in Linux? Could you name a few?
UIO has lots
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote:
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
to be in the kernel space.
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Regards,
Prabhunath G
Linux Trainer
Bangalore
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I learned, e.g. from here that user space device drivers are indeed
possible:
http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-2-sect-9
Are there serious user
Are there serious user space drivers in Linux? Could you name a few?
Printer drivers, scanner drivers, file system drivers etc.
How can I find them? Are they in the kernel source tree?
- Gergely
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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Gergely Buday gbu...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there serious user space drivers in Linux? Could you name a few?
Printer drivers, scanner drivers, file system drivers etc.
How can I find them? Are they in the kernel source tree?
They are everywhere except the
Are there serious user space drivers in Linux? Could you name a few?
Printer drivers, scanner drivers, file system drivers etc.
Hope this helps,
Sannu
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