Re: example of kernel thread

[Fawad Lateef]

On 2/10/06, Ottavio Campana <ottavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm writing a little driver and I need to run a thread to poll data.
>
> I've googled a bit to find an example, but I only found this
> http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html
> but it is for 2.4, while I need it for 2.6
>
> Do you know any example and/or tutorial for kernel threads?
>

You can get help from include/linux/kthread.h (its well commented) and
can also take a look at drivers/md/md.c (the md_thread function and
hows kernel_thread is used) !


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Fawad Lateef
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