On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>schedule_timeout() is a special case and is part of the 'scheduler
>subsystem'. Using wakeup_process() in that case is justified.
What I meant is that any module could need to implement a functionality of
the kind of schedule_timeout() for whatever reason. In an usage like
process_timeout() the use of wake_up_process() is the obviously right one,
thus I thought that it made sense to export wake_up_process() to a module
too. It must not be misused of course, but I don't exclude there could be
a legitimate case where it's more appropriate than using a waitqueue.
Andrea
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