Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 09:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 
> > I don't get you. The rtc module does something similar (RTC generates
> > interrupts and notifies userspace about it)
> 
> The RTC module knows how to shut the interrupt up.

The kernel part of the UIO driver also knows how to shut the interrupt
up, so where is the difference ?

	tglx



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