Re: Problem with schedule_timeout..

[Alan Cox]

> 	I am a relatively newb in the kenel programming. I am using the
> function "schedule_timeout" for sleeping for some time. But in some cases
> the function returns after the specified timeout but in some instance it
> returns immediately, without decrementing the timeout value passed as the
> argument. 

Make sure you have the task set to be in interruptible or uninterrutible
sleep before you do the schedule_timeout