Sorry my mistake in previous email - no explanation given. The first part is actually to show the proper way to send a signal to the kernel thread (from within the kernel)- not sure if you are doing it that way? On 10/4/07, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html > > /* We need to do a memory barrier here to be sure that > the flags are visible on all CPUs. > */ > mb(); > kill_proc(kthread->thread->pid, SIGKILL, 1); > > /* block till thread terminated */ > down(&kthread->startstop_sem); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
