Re: Can you use current->pid at the driver level

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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0200, Devvrat Tripathi wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Linux or any UNIX platform process with PID 1 is init process and
> >process with PID 0 is a swapper process.
> 
> Yes, i got it but i still cant understand what work does it do. Why is it
> initiating so many DMA transfers.

Is it really that hard? The name gives it away: the swapper swaps.


Erik

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