On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:35:58PM +0200, Frank.A.Uepping wrote: > Hello, > may a tty driver (registered with tty_register_driver()) block (sleep) inside the > tty_operations? Some of them, yes, some no. > From which context get the tty_operations called? Many different contexts, depends on the function call. See an old linux journal article for a description of some of the different contexts that some of the functions are called in. See the linux-kernel archive for some recent changes to the tty layer to help clear some of this mess up. good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
