action on IRQs outside the kernel

Andre Herms (aherms@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:46:44 +0100

Hello

I have a question on Linux' IRQ handling. Is there a posibility to recognize an
IRQ by an user process.
I wrote a driver for a scanner with controller card that handles data
transmision via IRQ. So I wrote a device driver for the linux kernel. This is
not the finest way because my sane backend depends on this special kernel
driver.
Is it possible to get an IRQ from inside of my backend?

In kernel there is the function sleep_on_interubtible(). Is it possible to call
this by a user process?

Thanks
Andre

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