Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3

James Bottomley
2006-02-16T19:09:29Z

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:18 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Maybe implementing it as a helper function would be the best and
> simplest solution?
>
> static void scsi_release(struct device *dev)
> {
> schedule_release_process(dev, scsi_release_process);
> }
>
> where schedule_release_process() contains more or less what I posted
> in the previous mailing.

That's almost exactly the execute_in_process_context() API that began
this discussion (and which Andi NAK'd). However, it could possibly be
resurrected with the proviso that the caller has to feed in the
workqueue memory. How would people feel about that?

James