Hardware interrupts routines

[Bret Indrelee]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Mark Chambers wrote:
> But isn't he going to have to write a device driver in order to call
> request_irq()?

He is going to have to write a loadable module, which may or may not
have the normal driver entry points. If he is handling a PCI device,
he definately should be writing a device driver.

-Bret

> You can't just call request_irq() from an application, can
> you?

That is correct.

> If not, is there any way to grab an interrupt other than writing a
> device driver?

Any kernel code (i.e. loadable module) can call the routine.

-Bret

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