Re: Assistance requested in demystifying wait queues.

From: Eli Carter (eli.carter@inet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 10:06:59 EST


Andrew Reitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm absolutely green when it comes to Linux kernel development, and so
> working on a school project to port a TCP/IP-based service into the kernel
> has been quite challenging (but also intesting)! Currently, I'm absolutely
> mystified regarding how the "wait queue" subsystem works. I've been
> reading the code, and usually that combined with an example is enough,
> but not this time.

Andy,

Go get "Linux Device Drivers" by Rubini (O'Reilly). It talks about that
and a lot of other useful stuff. Some of it is a bit dated by
development in 2.2 & 2.[34], but it'll help a lot.

Good luck,

Eli
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