On 9/17/05, Mandeep Singh Sandhu <mandeep_sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >> Yes, schedule() will certainly sends your driver to sleep and will > >schedule it to run again; thus give certainly time to other > >applications to work ... > > > When you say "schedule() will certainly sends your driver to sleep" > I think you mean the "process that called the driver will be put to > sleep"...right?? > > the driver itself doesn't have any process context. > Yes, You are right, writing " driver to sleep " I mean what ever driver is doing in the current context (that will be the process context) schedule will put process in which driver is running (as driver functions are call-backed from the kernel in most cases) to sleep !!!! -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
