From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Marty Leisner <mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, leisner@rochester.rr.com
Subject: Re: kernel threads and close method in a device driver
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:43:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010417234339.A18288@gruyere.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104172104.RAA08013@mailhost.eng.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: <200104172104.RAA08013@mailhost.eng.mc.xerox.com>; from mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:04:28PM -0400
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:04:28PM -0400, Marty Leisner wrote:
> open device
> do IOCTL (spinning a kernel thread and doing initialization)
>
> There is currently an IOCTL which short-circuits to the close method.
> Turns out it seems necessary to do this IOCTL -- close never gets
> invoked.
Call daemonize() in the kernel thread.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-17 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-17 21:04 Marty Leisner
2001-04-17 21:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 21:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-04-17 23:32 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-20 18:54 Marty Leisner
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