On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:55:40PM -0500, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> 	>So, I thought a nifty solution would be to make use of the
> 	>rendezvous stuff and call tsleep. But I don't understand how
> 	>this should work. When the watchdog is enabled, I need to start
> 	>some procedure that never returns. This would be easy in
> 	>userland, where I could simply start another thread, but how do
> 	>I do this in-kernel. 
> 
> that would be a kproc. look at some of the ether drivers, e.g. ether82557,c
> which actually has a kproc called 'watchdog'.

Aha! This does appear to be what I'm wanting to do. I saw the
watchdog procedure in ether82557.c, but wasn't able to really
figure it out. Searching for kproc makes more sense now :)

Thanks for this tip. I'll finish this driver up tomorrow.

--Devon