Re: [PATCH] tty: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue

[Jiri Slaby]

On 03. 04. 24, 18:15, Allen Pais wrote:
> The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context is
> tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws. To
> replace tasklets, BH workqueue support was recently added. A BH workqueue
> behaves similarly to regular workqueues except that the queued work items
> are executed in the BH context.
>
> This patch converts drivers/tty/* from tasklet to BH workqueue.

Quickly looking into the changes, could you also elaborate why not to 
convert most (all?) of them to (non-BH) wq? Or threaded IRQs. Much of 
the code comes from the pre-WQ era.

thanks,
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js
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