Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls

Shaohua Li
2009-01-07T02:41:06Z

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:53:00PM +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:01:34 +1100
> Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham-lkml@crca.org.au> 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 :)
This can be used for shutdown too. Some drivers like sata and serio
shutdown time is long.

Thanks,
Shaohua