Re: [PATCH][input-led] Defer input led work to workqueue

[Samuel Thibault]

Johannes Berg, le Tue 26 Aug 2014 10:01:35 +0200, a écrit :
> On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 03:54 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > +	vt_led_wq = alloc_workqueue("input_leds", WQ_UNBOUND, 0);
> > +	if (!vt_led_wq)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Does this really need a separate workqueue rather than just using
> schedule_work()? There doesn't seem to be much point in having its own
> workqueue really, to me.

Ah, yes, probably.  I'm not up to date with this kind of thing (last
time I used those, they were called tasklets and bottom halves, you
know... ;) ), so I just followed Documentation/workqueue.txt, which does
not talk about schedule_work.

Samuel
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