Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 05:55:40 EST

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:41:32AM -0700, Balbir Singh wrote:

> I realize that the Linux kernel supports user level drivers (via
> ioperm, etc). However interrupts at user level are not supported,
> does anyone think it would be a good idea to add user level
> interrupt support ? I have a framework for it, but it still needs a
> lot of work.

Well, for parallel port devices, take a look at libieee1284 and
/dev/parport0.

Tim.
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