Re: driver hacking tips (was Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for2.6.9-rc3)

[Mark Lord]

>Storage drivers that want to handle long-running events,
>or events that need process context, typically want to
>either fire off events _asynchronously_ via schedule_work(),
>or have a long-running thread that does nothing but processes
>an internal driver event queue.

At driver module unload time, is there any way to guarantee
that all pending "schedule_work()" events have been processed?

How?

Thanks
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
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