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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 9/9] serios: async shutdown
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:49:57 -0700
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 20:20:56 -0700 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:43:11PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
> > 
> > serio shutdown is quite slow. It sometimes will take 0.2s for each port.
> > 
> 
> This depends on the other patch you sent to Greg,

synchronize-device-shutdown.patch, I assume.

> I think these should
> go together. But I am uncomfortable at the ide of blasting all ports on
> i8042 simultaneously during shutdown. I'd be more comfortable if we were
> taking serio_mutex in serio_cleanup() so only one port is being worked
> on at a time.

OK, more thought is needed.  I dropped the patches.