long delays in drivers.

[Michel Lanners]

On   4 Feb, this message from Iain Sandoe echoed through cyberspace:
> if I need to implement a long delay (say 1 second) in the initialisation of
> a driver... what is the best mechanism to use to ensure that resources are
> not wasted?

Use a waitqueue. Relativly easy to implement....I can dig out an example
at work, if you need it. Just let me know.

Michel

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