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Date:	Tue, 4 Jan 2011 06:17:51 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	castet.matthieu@...e.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, stf_xl@...pl
Subject: Re: your mail

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:03:17PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 05:38:00PM +0100, castet.matthieu@...e.fr wrote:
> > could you CC me on ueagle-atm.c patches.

Will try to, but maybe it's a good idea to add a MAINTAINERS entry?

> > From what I remind we sleep in the workqueue, that's why we couldn't use the
> > system one (freeze keyboard...). But may be the code changed.
> In case when firmware is not available we can sleep for a few seconds in
> work function. That's block keyboard driver who also use common workqueue.
> If recent Tejun workqueue rewrite allow to long sleep in work func and
> not hurt other workqueue users, patch is ok.

Yeap, work items can sleep all they want on the system_wq.  It won't
delay execution of other work items.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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