Re: monotone polling in a driver

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>>>>> "Matan" == Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org> writes:

Matan> Hi,

Matan> I write a driver for a hardware device (tv card remote control)
Matan> that needs to be polled for input at 50Hz.

Matan> Which way is preferable (adding less load to the system): (or
Matan> is there a better way?)

Use the timer

Jes

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