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

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 08:03:55 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> They're not being serialized.

If they aren't serialized, they are useless for floppy for other
reasons. There are *three* work item for the floppy driver, and the
whole point was to serialize them.

                      Linus
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