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RE: kernel threads

>So one shoudl use kernel threads if you want to do something during
which you can sleep, correct ?(this is what
>you mean by using it in process context and not syscall). So if kernel
threads are the same as a process then
>we can probably add them to a wait_queue and scheule them using
>schedule() ?, we can use wait functions like wait_event_interruptible
on those, right ?


You may want to look at HUB.C for a fairly simple example of a kernel
thread that waits:

http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/usb/hub.c#L928

HTH
dom

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