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On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Grant Likely wrote:

> 
> You can use a kernel thread.
> 
> I'm not sure how accurate this is, but here is some information about them:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/articles/Technical/Linux_Kernel_Thread

Not accurate at all. New code should use kthread_create, as documented in

http://lwn.net/Articles/65178/

	Arnd <><