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Re: Question hardware interrupt handler without device driver? (Russ Gritzo)
Keywords: Hardware Interrupt
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:52:13 GMT
From: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

Linux does not deliver interrupts to user processes. You'll have to write a kernel device driver to do the interrupt-driven work.