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SubjectRe: [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API.
Christoph Hellwig writes:

> Why is this driver using a thread at all? It's only doing a bunch
> of rather short-lived things in the thread.

It's doing i2c reads and writes, which block, and are actually quite
slow.

Paul.
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