I wasn't aware of work queues, but after reading about them I was able to achieve what I was looking for. Thank you everyone who suggested this and pointed me in the right direction! -- Michael Griepentrog On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John Mahoney <jmahoney@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you do not care about waiting for the results why not just use > schedule_work() to queue the code so it can run in process context. > > -- > John > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ