Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mac80211: make max_network_latency notifieratomic safe

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:15 +0200, florian@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In order to have the pm_qos framework be callable from interrupt
> context, all listeners have to also be callable in that context.

That makes no sense at all. Why add work structs _everywhere_ in the
callees and make the API harder to use and easy to get wrong completely,
instead of just adding a single work struct that will be queued from the
caller and dealing with the locking complexity etc. just once.

johannes

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