CONFIG_EVENTFD

Enable support for eventfd

Type: bool

Help

Enable support for event file descriptors, eventfd. An eventfd can be used as an event wait/notify mechanism together with POSIX calls like read, write and poll.

Direct dependencies

!ARCH_POSIX

(Includes any dependencies from ifs and menus.)

Defaults

No defaults. Implicitly defaults to n.

Kconfig definition

At <Zephyr>/lib/posix/Kconfig:111

Included via <Zephyr>/Kconfig:8<Zephyr>/Kconfig.zephyr:33<Zephyr>/lib/Kconfig:18

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config EVENTFD
    bool "Enable support for eventfd"
    depends on !ARCH_POSIX
    help
      Enable support for event file descriptors, eventfd. An eventfd can
      be used as an event wait/notify mechanism together with POSIX calls
      like read, write and poll.

(The ‘depends on’ condition includes propagated dependencies from ifs and menus.)