linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/30] sound: don't use flush_scheduled

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Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:29:03 +0000
From:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/30] sound: don't use flush_scheduled_work()

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 09:34 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:40:41 +0000,
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:38:36PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > 
> > > Meanwhile, I wondered whether it's the really wanted behavior for
> > > that particular code path, thus the previous question to Liam.
> > 
> > Yes, it's desired behaviour.  That's what the old code was trying to do.
> 
> OK, now I merged to sound git tree.
> Also it's merged back to topic/asoc branch with a conflict fix.
> Please pull appropriately.
> 
> (I still don't remember why it had to be flush_work_sync() instead
>  of cancel_work_sync() in the remove callback path for ASoC, though...
>  Both aren't so much different nowadays and should work fine in such a
>  case, though :)

Fwiw, I can't remember either why it had to be flush_work_sync() here.
The initial soc-core stuff was 5 years ago and the reason is well and
truly forgotten ;-)

Thanks

Liam
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Freelance Developer, SlimLogic Ltd
ASoC and Voltage Regulator Maintainer.
http://www.slimlogic.co.uk

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