Dear Sabarinathan...
First of all, please CC your reply to the mailing list, so others might
give better hints and our overall discussion can be archieved :)
> when i am using schedule_timeout (1000), say in (Kernel Module)
> while (1)
> {
> /* my code here */
> schedule_timeout (1000) ;
> }
> I am unable to quit the while loop (say after everything is over)
> when i press ctrl + C i am unable to come out of it and it hangs so i
Of course you can get out of the loop, you are doing endless while
loop, remember? :) You need to use somekind of flag variable to get out
from the loop.
while (your_condition=1)
{
schedule_timeout(1000);
if_you_have_reach_certain_condition {
your_condition=0;
}
}
And second...let me guess, you put that loop on the procedure assigned
on module_init(), correct? That's where you stuck...on module
initialization. because it is executed on behalf of insmod/modprobe,
you will get perception that insmod/modprobe is stuck.
Solution: put your schedule_timeout() code outside
module_init/exit....put it e.g inside workqueue. For more about this,
please read Linux Device Driver 3rd edition (do Googling and grab the
free PDF) :)
good luck....
regards,
Mulyadi
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