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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Linux does not correctly implement the ACPI specification
Date: 12 Apr 2006 18:56:35 +0200
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Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> Instead of executing all the GPE and Notify handlers in the single
> kacpid thread, we create a pool of worker threads and hand over the
> work to them.

You do this at boot - this means you waste a lot of memory for this
obscure case. Not a good idea. If anything create/destroy them
dynamically.

Also externs belong in header files.

-Andi