linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls

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Message-Id: <1231154305.8179.148.camel@nigel-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:18:25 +1100
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham-lkml@...a.org.au>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, fweisbec@...il.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls

Hi.

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 02:53 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:01:34 +1100
> Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham-lkml@...a.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Arjan.
> > 
> > Great work, and valuable too. I'm just wondering if the header file
> > name "async.h" is a little too generic? Something like async_init.h
> > perhaps?
> > 
> 
> while the users I have in mind are during init, the concept and
> infrastructure of asynchronous function calls is by no means limited to
> that use case... I hope there are many other uses for this :)

Okee doke. How about async_fn or something like that then? It's just
that there's async I/O and no doubt other async stuff I haven't thought
of. Still, it's a relatively minor point.

Night!

Nigel

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