Pooja Gupta wrote: >Hi there... > I am writing a network block device driver. In the >request function, when I get a READ command, I have to >send a message to a remote machine and get the data >from there. This takes considerable time duration. >So, I need to make that device driver sleep. The >reception of data is done in another thread. > I have tried different ways, all in vain. I tried >wait_event_interruptible(...) followed by condition >set and wake_up(...) when I want to wake up. > Why didn't this work? Set your condition and do your wake_up from whereever you determine that all the information has been read. I have a driver that does this waiting for an irq to happen. So my 'read' blocks until the irq handler runs, sets the condition then wakes up the queue. -- Best regards, David Stroupe Keyed-Up Software -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
