From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.242]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD3CDDF42 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:47:14 +1000 (EST) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id z77so651135hsz.9 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:47:00 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Arnd Bergmann" Subject: Re: While(1) in kernel space In-Reply-To: <200807081645.31807.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <5468b7f30807080055p69571979i9a565653e523c2c0@mail.gmail.com> <200807081645.31807.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paolo Doz List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann 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.