How ?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305150828210.26702-100000 at spider.ancor.com> you wrote:
>
> Don't know why you want to handle it from user space, but the easiest way
> to notify an application would be to send a signal. Have a special ioctl()
> to notify the driver that this application wants a signal, and then when
> the driver receives the interrupt it clears the condition and sends a
> signal to the registered application(s).

Instead of inventing new special ioctl()'s it's  probably  better  to
use existing and standardized interfaces like select() resp. poll().

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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