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 -- Bret Indrelee QLogic Corporation Bret.Indrelee at qlogic.com 6321 Bury Drive, St 13, Eden Prairie, MN 55346 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
