linux-kernel - Re: threading problem

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:07:00 +0300
From:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
To:	"Murali K. Vemuri" <vemuri.muralikrishna@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: threading problem

Hello Murali,

> I have a device driver which provides the IOCTL function for the
> application to interact.
>
> when the application sends the IOCTL CMD_GO, my driver has to toggle a
> GPIO every 500 m Sec. until a 3 minute timeout occurs or a CMD_STOP
> IOCTL is received.
>
> I tried the DECLARE_WORK, DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK and also
> kernel_thread() to meet this requirement with no success.
>

Could you please show us the code?

thanks,
Daniel.
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