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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] usbether
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:49:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5jOaS76UWo7XV-qO6EHOaqmkmjzUvSBN9z43P+XRaU1dA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9680a4c5cb0d2d5ae048e7338c49bb61@kw.quanstro.net>

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>the host adapter driver in the kernel will poll a device for input only
when
>the user-level driver process does a read

I'm fairly sure the original driver could post a batch of polling requests,
for just that reason,
but it was a long time ago.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-29 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-29 16:16 Richard Miller
2012-09-29 16:39 ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-09-29 17:03   ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-29 18:01     ` Richard Miller
2012-09-29 18:19       ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-09-29 18:24         ` Richard Miller
2012-09-29 21:38           ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-09-29 21:46             ` Richard Miller
2012-09-29 21:48               ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-01 19:20                 ` Richard Miller
2012-09-30  9:20               ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-30 10:24                 ` Richard Miller
2012-09-30 13:54                   ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-29 18:41       ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-29 19:49         ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2012-09-30 23:29 ` Tristan

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