From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264968AbTK3R2h (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:28:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264965AbTK3R2h (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:28:37 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:36530 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264968AbTK3RZE (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:25:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCA27E0.5040809@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:24:48 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Pavel Machek , "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" , kernel list Subject: Re: FYI: My current suspend bigdiff References: <3FC7860C.2060505@gmx.de> <20031128173312.GH303@elf.ucw.cz> <3FC789F5.2000208@gmx.de> <20031128175503.GB18072@elf.ucw.cz> <3FC7908A.9030007@gmx.de> <20031128235623.GB18147@elf.ucw.cz> <3FC8C0DB.9050107@gmx.de> <20031129172537.GB459@elf.ucw.cz> <3FC9C560.2070902@gmx.de> <20031130171833.GB516@elf.ucw.cz> <20031130172134.GB10679@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20031130172134.GB10679@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > Curious - can't this be put some place a bit smarter, so we don't have > to update every single "driver" with a kernel thread out there (like in > the scheduler)? Seems pretty fragile to rely on this. Plus, when you > change this in the future there'll be N drivers to update again. Agreed. I had to do this simple and obvious (and template-able) patch for 8139too and another driver whose name I forget ATM... Jeff