From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paolo Doz <paolo.doz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: While(1) in kernel space
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:47:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40807080747u3e1f4f57of1a2cddc67b446b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807081645.31807.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> 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/
Teach me to blindly use google. Thanks Arnd.
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-08 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 7:55 While(1) in kernel space Paolo Doz
2008-07-08 14:19 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-08 14:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-08 14:47 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-07-08 20:53 ` Paolo Doz
2008-07-08 14:44 ` Chris Friesen
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