Thread (48 messages) 48 messages, 6 authors, 2007-05-30

Re: [patch 5/7] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2007-05-25 22:53:46
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On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 21:40 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
I used a kthread because the request function of a block device driver
must be
non-blocking, and ps3stor_read_write_sectors() calls
wait_for_completion().
Which as I said before looks terribly sad... Why the heck would it have
to do that ?

Ben.
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