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From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: Andrew Reitz <areitz@uiuc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Assistance requested in demystifying wait queues.
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:06:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A2D0493.55AED90C@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0012042358270.19766-100000@stellar.cso.uiuc.edu>

Andrew Reitz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm absolutely green when it comes to Linux kernel development, and so
> working on a school project to port a TCP/IP-based service into the kernel
> has been quite challenging (but also intesting)! Currently, I'm absolutely
> mystified regarding how the "wait queue" subsystem works. I've been
> reading the code, and usually that combined with an example is enough,
> but not this time.

Andy,

Go get "Linux Device Drivers" by Rubini (O'Reilly).  It talks about that
and a lot of other useful stuff.  Some of it is a bit dated by
development in 2.2 & 2.[34], but it'll help a lot.

Good luck,

Eli
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-05 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-05  6:24 Assistance requested in demystifying wait queues Andrew Reitz
2000-12-05 10:11 ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-05 15:06 ` Eli Carter [this message]

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