From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Cc: Paolo Doz <paolo.doz@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: While(1) in kernel space
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:45:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807081645.31807.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40807080719r4b7b01f7n7863fe1456a3e64@mail.gmail.com>
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/
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-08 14:45 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 [this message]
2008-07-08 14:47 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-08 20:53 ` Paolo Doz
2008-07-08 14:44 ` Chris Friesen
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