From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268155AbUI2CaR (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:30:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268163AbUI2C2c (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:28:32 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:41865 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268155AbUI2C1Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:27:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use msleep_interruptible for therm_adt7467.c kernel thread From: Alan Cox To: Herbert Xu Cc: akpm@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , mdz@canonical.com, janitor@sternwelten.at In-Reply-To: <20040929015827.GA26337@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20040927102552.GA19183@gondor.apana.org.au> <1096289501.9930.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040929015827.GA26337@gondor.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1096421071.14637.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:24:33 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2004-09-29 at 02:58, Herbert Xu wrote: > > A more interesting question is why this isn't being driven off a > > timer ? > > It probably could if the stuff afterwards doesn't sleep. schedule_work() ?