linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 08:25:06 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> This patch converts all the timers and bottom halfs to be processed in a
> single workqueue. This aproach has been already discussed back in 2010 and
> Acked by Linus [1], but it then never made it to the tree.

Nobody ever actually reported testing it on real hardware, and I
didn't want to take it untested.

Since you have tested this, I will have *zero* problems with taking it for 3.5.

                     Linus
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