Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754826Ab2EPPZa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 11:25:30 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:59049 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753950Ab2EPPZ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 11:25:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:25:06 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZCM74LKEtsnA4yJIds9um1ntU5U Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Stephen Hemminger , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 17 On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > This patch converts all the timers and bottom halfs to be processed in a > single workqueue. This aproach has been already discussed back in 2010 and > Acked by Linus [1], but it then never made it to the tree. Nobody ever actually reported testing it on real hardware, and I didn't want to take it untested. Since you have tested this, I will have *zero* problems with taking it for 3.5. Linus -- 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/