Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:57:56 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
       Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>,
       Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes
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On Sat, 28 October 2006 10:34:51 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> 
> What should be used to replace it? The MMC block driver uses it to
> manage the block device queue. I am not that intimate with the block
> layer so I do not know the proper fix.

Why does the MMC block driver use a thread?  Is there a technical
reason for this or could it be done in original process context as
well, removing some code and useless cpu scheduler overhead?

J?rn

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