On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:44, Vanitha Ramaswami wrote: > Now for me to provide support for select, the poll_wait function should be > waiting on a wait_queue and should be awakened by the Rx interrupt process. > Is there a way to implement this other than creating a separate polling > task(kernel_thread) for receive, which continuously polls the device and > awakes the wait queue when there is data? That can be done using a kernel timer that reschedules itself. http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch06.html#t5 Vijay -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
