Re: HELP PLEASE: i2c in interrupt?

[Abraham van der Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net>]

Hi Richard                                       >@2003.09.17_20:45:41_+0200

> Why do you need something different? Why do you have something
> on the timer queue in the first place? You don't need anything
> like that. Serial I/O is serial I/O. You handle the IIC bus
> serial I/O just like RS-232C or keyboard input. You get an
> interrupt, the ISR gets the data and puts it in a buffer.

See, that's my problem. The ISR can't put it in a buffer, because in order
to read the data it has to sleep. The reason for that as I explained it is
that it has to read the data from a chip on an I2C bus.

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