Re: HELP PLEASE: i2c in interrupt?

From: Abraham van der Merwe (abz_at_frogfoot.net)
Date: 09/17/03

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To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>

    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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