On Thu, 2 May 2002, David Relson wrote: > >I've hacked up a program to sit and wait, looking every few seconds at > >the currently loaded modules but it pegs the CPU and interferes with > >power management. > > > Forgive me if I ask the obvious... Are you using sleep() to wait? sleep() > doesn't use CPU for the delay... > Yes -- it is sleep'ing between checks. Currently I'm watching /proc/modules for the appearance of the scsi and usb module loads. Do i need to do something specifically to allow the system to quit checking if there i no activity? I thought that the PM would do this automatically?
In any case, I believe I'd still prefer to have the app kicked off from some sort of callback rather than this watcher proggie. Thanks for the input.
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