Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752870AbZAEKvi (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 05:51:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752347AbZAEKvL (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 05:51:11 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34211 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751224AbZAEKvK (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 05:51:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 02:53:00 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: ncunningham-lkml@crca.org.au Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Message-ID: <20090105025300.3afbec23@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1231135294.8179.45.camel@nigel-laptop> References: <20090104092430.7ffd2c41@infradead.org> <1231135294.8179.45.camel@nigel-laptop> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 24 On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:01:34 +1100 Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi Arjan. > > Great work, and valuable too. I'm just wondering if the header file > name "async.h" is a little too generic? Something like async_init.h > perhaps? > while the users I have in mind are during init, the concept and infrastructure of asynchronous function calls is by no means limited to that use case... I hope there are many other uses for this :) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/