Using the new (since Linux Kernel 2.6.20) workqueue interface

Question

I read about development drivers / Linux kernel drivers and all the books that I looked at using the interface to work up to 2.6.20 . This includes the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide , Robert Love Linux Kernel Development , and Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran Basic Linux Device Drivers , which was published in April 2008!

Does anyone have a guide on using the “new” 2.6.20+ working interface ?

Just for reference, Ubuntu 8.04, which I'm currently developing, was released over a year and a half ago and includes the 2.6.24 kernel.

Edit

Stsquad's answer led me to this tutorial on porting code to a new working question 2.6.20 .

Answer 1

You won't go wrong in the excellent LWN API articles ( http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/ ) that document many new APIs as they enter the kernel. There is a whole section on working measures worth reading.

The kernel has been running in the kernel for some time, so I assume you are thinking of a recent API update .

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