Re: [Question] about patch: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()

From: Andreas Mohr
Date: Mon Sep 05 2016 - 10:14:22 EST


On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:41:39AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 03:29:39AM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Reason: any other [early-boot] invoker of cancel_delayed_work_sync()
> > would hit the same issue,
> > without any fix then available locally each.
> >
> > This may or may not be intentional.
> > Just wanted to point it out.
>
> idk, invoking a blocking API from early boot is pretty special (as
> with everything during early boot), so I think it's fine to handle
> them as execeptions.

Yup, this sounds like the rationale that I would have expected.

Andreas