Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:35:30 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] swait: add the missing killable swaits |
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:20:15PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Do you really still want to add these, now that we know we shouldn't be > > using swait in "real" code? :) > > And who defined that it should not be used in real code?
Linus did, in a different firmware thread. You have to _really_ know what you are doing to use this interface, and the firmware interface shouldn't be using it. So adding new apis just for firmware does not seem like a wise decision at this point in time.
thanks,
greg k-h
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