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Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Sleep waiting for tcs slots to be free
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc:     Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
        Maulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org>
To:     Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:11:30 -0700
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Quoting Lina Iyer (2020-07-24 13:08:41)
> On Fri, Jul 24 2020 at 14:01 -0600, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >Quoting Doug Anderson (2020-07-24 12:49:56)
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:44 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> wr=
ote:
> >I think Lina was alluding to this earlier in this
> >thread.
> I was thinking more of threaded irq handler than a kthread to post the
> requests. We went away from post-thread approach a few years ago.
>=20

Ok, got it. Why was the kthread approach abandoned?