On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:56 +0530, Nilanjan Roychowdhury wrote: > > >>>oh and never ever use interruptible_sleep_on(); that entire family of > >>>API's is racy as hell and deprecated. > > Then what is the solution. Currently I use interruptible_sleep_on() on a > process context and wake it up from a bottom half. Should I go back to > Old semaphores and signal the semaphore from the bottom half. you should use the wait_event type of API, or possibly open coded prepare_to_wait() .. schedule() .. finish_wait() code sequence, depending on your code -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
