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

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Message-ID: <20090107024105.GA20931@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:41:06 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	"ncunningham-lkml@...a.org.au" <ncunningham-lkml@...a.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:53:00PM +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 :)
This can be used for shutdown too. Some drivers like sata and serio
shutdown time is long.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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