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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.16-rc3
On Thu, Feb 16 2006, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:18 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Maybe implementing it as a helper function would be the best and
> > simplest solution?
> >
> > static void scsi_release(struct device *dev)
> > {
> > schedule_release_process(dev, scsi_release_process);
> > }
> >
> > where schedule_release_process() contains more or less what I posted
> > in the previous mailing.
>
> That's almost exactly the execute_in_process_context() API that began
> this discussion (and which Andi NAK'd). However, it could possibly be
> resurrected with the proviso that the caller has to feed in the
> workqueue memory. How would people feel about that?

That's what I suggested in the first place as well. I still think it's a
good idea, fwiw :)

--
Jens Axboe

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