From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shaohua Li Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:41:06 +0800 Message-ID: <20090107024105.GA20931@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> References: <20090104092430.7ffd2c41@infradead.org> <1231135294.8179.45.camel@nigel-laptop> <20090105025300.3afbec23@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:26760 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752918AbZAGClR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:41:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090105025300.3afbec23@infradead.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: "ncunningham-lkml@crca.org.au" , "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" 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 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