Re: How to trigger periodic events in kernel space

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@actcom.co.il>]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:44:07PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> has anyone any idea or information of pointer to information on how to
> trigger periodic events in the Linux kernel space?  Is there the
> possibility to hook a function to the timer interrupt?
> 
> Thanks for any information,

The Linux Device Drivers book by Rubini & Corbet has a section on this
very subject and the various ways to do it, including timers. It's
available at finer book stores and at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/
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