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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:20:17 -0700
From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: export park/unpark facility
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On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> >  This patch should definitely help most modules.
> 
> And how exactly would this help modules?

	Putting kthread to sleep and waking them up later is slightly
tricky :
		http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8144

	The park and unpark API encapsulate this functionality in
a pretty nice and clean API, and avoid duplicating this code in
various modules. I'm all for sharing the joy ;-)

> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

	Regards,

	Jean