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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:

> That that possible? usb_hub_events can block for a long time. That is why
> the kernel thread was needed. I'm not familiar with schedule_task enough
> to know if it can be used.

Ah. How long? At first glance, it didn't look to me as if it would sleep
for long at all.

-- 
dwmw2


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