Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jul 2015 18:49:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kthread: export park/unpark facility |
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > 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 ;-)
If you can come up with a proper use case, i.e. patch for a module, then we can certainly talk about the exports. But without a user it does not make any sense.
Thanks,
tglx
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