From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:26:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:26:32 -0400 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:28425 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:26:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAC8385.BFA35D19@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:26:45 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-ac9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Vogel CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [Newbie] Interrupt Handling and sleep/wake_up Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > void bdDoSomething(){ > setup_buffers_for_interrupt_routing(); > tell_board_to_start_reading_or_writing(); > /***** BOARD THROWS ITS INTERRUPTS HERE!!! *****/ > interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(&irq_wqueue,PCIIA_SLEEP_TIMEOUT); > } > Just do not use sleep_on, use wait_event or a manual wait loop. check the mouse driver sample from Alan Cox: linux/Documentation/DocBook/mousedriver.tmpl The document is slightly outdated: * do not access current->state directly, use set_current_state. * do not use MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, set module->owner to THIS_MODULE instead. -- Manfred