Re: Handling NMI in a kernel module

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 27 2002 - 07:39:42 EST


On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 04:30, Alan Robertson wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > I've been tracking other lists. The current state is very much that we
> > need the dual notifier. I now have some draft code that allows us to do
> > this even on hardware that doesn't support it, and where the read()
> > function gets told when an event is about to occur
>
> I know what had been requested from the telco crowd was the ability to
> register a function to get called (in the kernel) when an event was about to
> occur.

They can already do that anyway. Its called add_timer() 8)

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