Re: sleeping kernel thread

From: Martin Frey (frey@scs.ch)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 03:21:15 EST

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Hi,

> does anyone know how to create a kernel thread, put it to sleep, and wake it
> up??
>
Have a look at:
http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html

Creation and termination is described there, including
a code example.

Use wake_up_interruptible() from an external event to wake
it up (e.g. out of interrupt, out of ioctl, ...).

Best regards,

Martin Frey

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