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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> To driver wizards:
> 
> I have a driver which needs to wait for some hardware.
> Basically, it needs to have some code added to the run-queue
> so it can get some CPU time even though it's not being called.
> 
> It needs to get some CPU time which can be "turned on" or
> "turned off" as a result of an interrupt or some external
> input from  an ioctl().

schedule_task()?