Re: kernel threads and close method in a device driver

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:43:39 +0200

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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:04:28PM -0400, Marty Leisner wrote:
> open device
> do IOCTL (spinning a kernel thread and doing initialization)
>
> There is currently an IOCTL which short-circuits to the close method.
> Turns out it seems necessary to do this IOCTL -- close never gets
> invoked.

Call daemonize() in the kernel thread.

-Andi
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