Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > >>> Does the kthread API guarantee that the kthread is not running until you >>> call >> It does. That's why the race, you mentioned above is impossible. > > That is wrong. The API guarantees only that the kthread is initially > created in a non-running state. It cannot guarantee that no other > task will wake up the kthread before the caller does.
Other tasks cannot wake this thread up since they do not know the struct task_struct pointer. > Alan Stern > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
