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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] Stop using tasklet in ds1374 RTC driver
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:52:16PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Mar 23, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> >I'm no expert in workqueues either; however, after reading
> >http://lwn.net/Articles/23634/, I believe that its unnecessary for an
> >rtc driver to have its own workqueue since rtc writes aren't
> >particularly
> >time-critical. If I am correct, then Randy's patch uses the proper
> >wq calls.
> >
> >Agree?
>
> How does this change with the RTC subsystem that's about to be added?
> (could be irrelevant, just wanted to put that out there)

Dunno, but its broken where it is now so we need to fix it ASAP.
Once that's done, we can do whatever needs to be done to get it into
drivers/rtc.

Mark
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