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SubjectRe: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes
Jörn Engel wrote:
> Why does the MMC block driver use a thread? Is there a technical
> reason for this or could it be done in original process context as
> well, removing some code and useless cpu scheduler overhead?
>

I'm afraid I don't know the block layer very well, but that thread seems
to be polling the block layer for requests and handing the over to the
routines in mmc_block.c.

How do you set it up so that the block layer itself calls the necessary
function?

Rgds

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