[milton at krutt.org: Re: Delaying an interrupt handler]

[Milton Krutt]

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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 18:46:46 +0200
From: Milton Krutt <milton at krutt.org>
To: Malte Vesper <malte.vesper at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Delaying an interrupt handler


Not that late! I take your advice, and I inform all the folks who
suggested me to jump on a new kernel that now I am on a 3.19! So their
hints are still welcome. Bye

> Despite beeing fairly late, take a look at threaded interrupt
> handlers, they might help you. You will handle the interrupt fast
> but you can delay doing the actual work. In the threaded part of the
> interrupt handler you can sleep and thus use semaphores.
> 
> hope it is still useful

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