Interfacing user application and interrupt.

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20010721101345.5964.qmail at web20104.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I also have ppc linux interrupt handler that correctly
> detects the interrupt from the device. Now what I am
> missing is how does the kernel interrupt handler
> indicate to the user process that  there was an
> interrupt and user process needs to do its thing....

Either make your user process block in a read / write / ioctl  system
call,  and  wake  it  from  your  interrupt  handler,  or implement a
select() / poll() interface, so you don't have to block  waiting  for
this event alone.

Wolfgang Denk

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