Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:01:39 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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       Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3
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On Thu, Feb 16 2006, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:18 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Maybe implementing it as a helper function would be the best and
> > simplest solution?
> > 
> > static void scsi_release(struct device *dev)
> > {
> > 	schedule_release_process(dev, scsi_release_process);
> > }
> > 
> > where schedule_release_process() contains more or less what I posted
> > in the previous mailing.
> 
> That's almost exactly the execute_in_process_context() API that began
> this discussion (and which Andi NAK'd).  However, it could possibly be
> resurrected with the proviso that the caller has to feed in the
> workqueue memory.  How would people feel about that?

That's what I suggested in the first place as well. I still think it's a
good idea, fwiw :)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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