Hi everyone -

I'm looking for a way to simulate getting interrupts so we can test some software at slower-than-hardware interrupt speeds. I'd like to make use of the real-time clock and catch its interrupts with my own mini-module, but that crazy /dev/rtc device refuses to share and worse, refuses to go away.

I've tried changing my /etc/modprobe.conf file to include
as well as deleting the /dev/rtc entry.

Is there any way to insert a module and force it to handle a given IRQ?
Is there any way to remove the rtc driver?
I don't know much about the devfs - is there something else I have to do in addition to the above to kill the driver?

Finally, is there any way to generate interrupts without hardware?

Thanks

i think if you google
"linux requesting an interrupt"
you will get some fun information