Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

From: Johannes Erdfelt (johannes@erdfelt.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 14:26:17 EST


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
>
> > That that possible? usb_hub_events can block for a long time. That is why
> > the kernel thread was needed. I'm not familiar with schedule_task enough
> > to know if it can be used.
>
> Ah. How long? At first glance, it didn't look to me as if it would sleep
> for long at all.

Multiple seconds in the worst case.

JE

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