>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 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
