Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262623AbTGAQVm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:21:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262714AbTGAQVm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:21:42 -0400 Received: from www1.mail.lycos.com ([209.202.220.140]:44888 "HELO lycos.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262623AbTGAQVl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:21:41 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:35:54 -0400 From: "Sumit Narayan" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off Reply-To: sumit_uconn@lycos.com X-Mailer: MailCity Service X-Priority: 3 Subject: Thread in Driver X-Sender-Ip: 137.99.1.12 Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.lycos.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 17 Hi, I am writing a driver code for IDE Interface, and would like to start a thread in it, which could write to a file at some initialization of proc value. But, when I do this, my kernel hangs. And the file is also not created. Could someone tell the reason for this. Is it coz I have a thread in the IDE Driver? Thanks in advance. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/