Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:46:28 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API. |
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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.
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