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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> I just read on this list that:
> 
>     while(something)
>     {
>       current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
>       schedule();
>     }
> 
> Will no longer be allowed in a kernel module! If this is true, how
> do I loop, waiting for a bit in a port, without wasting CPU time?

Call yield() or better yet, schedule_timeout()

In 2.4, define the above to be yield() in some compatibility module...

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