Re: Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing.

Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18T19:17:30Z

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> schedule_work() is _not_ for that. As currently implemented, you have
> no guarantees that your schedule_work()-initiated work will even
> begin in this century.

In theory yes. In practice no. schedule_work() tries to wake up the worker
process immediately, and as such usually gets the work done asap.

But hey, if you want to improve on the drivers, please go wild. I care
more about "real life working" than "theoretical but doesn't work".

Linus