> I dont care if it is depreceated or not. I just want to know why it is > depreceated. I thought I commented on it. Your saying "when the driver decides to sleep and when the sleep_on is performed" is correct according to me. This window is the cause of problem. > Did you have a look in the kernel-2.6.18 tree how many drivers still > use interruptible_sleep_on() ? When they are all converted to the wait_event_interruptible, there is no need to include it any more. That's why it stays in the kernel. > (don't mean to offend you by the way ;) No :-) -- Bora SAHIN -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
