Re: Difference wait_event_interruptible and interruptible_wait_on

[Davide Rossetti <davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it>]

Hendrik Wiese wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm porting a device driver from 2.2.14 to 2.6.7 and I got some 
> problems doing this...
>
> one of them is the following:
> I know that a call to interruptible_wait_on puts a process into sleep 
> state and that wait_event_interruptible does the same. But the 
> difference is that wait_event_interruptible needs a condition to pass 
> to wake up the processes. I do not need that mechanism since I wake up 
> the processes at other places inside my driver with 
> wake_up_interruptible calls. So how do I get a function similar to 
> interruptible_wait_on where no condition is needed using kernel 2.6?

I did not check, so maybe I'm wrong, anyway the condition 
wait_event_interruptible is used to avoid the race window between the 
time you decide to call it and the time the process is actually made to 
sleep and ready to be woken up.
regards