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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which failed to start because of the following error: The operation comple- ted successfully." -- Windows NT Server v3.51 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
