Re: Handling NMI in a kernel module

[Alan Cox]

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)