On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > > This patch should definitely help most modules.
> >
> > And how exactly would this help modules?
>
> Putting kthread to sleep and waking them up later is slightly
> tricky :
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8144
>
> The park and unpark API encapsulate this functionality in
> a pretty nice and clean API, and avoid duplicating this code in
> various modules. I'm all for sharing the joy ;-)
If you can come up with a proper use case, i.e. patch for a module,
then we can certainly talk about the exports. But without a user it
does not make any sense.
Thanks,
tglx
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