Hooking a kernelmodule-function into a timer interrupt

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:51:45AM +0100, Michiel Overtoom wrote:
>second.  If would be nice if it gets called at the kern.clockrate.  I have no 
>clear idea how to proceed, I suspect I have to install a pointer to my 
>conversion function into some list of functions which get called each clock 
>tick, but I don't know where, or how. Any tips would be very welcome.

I presume that the exact rate is not critical.  My suggestion would be
to create a kernel thread (see kthread(9)) that uses a callout (see
timeout(9)) to wake it every tick.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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