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Message-ID: <20130227152949.GD22383@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:29:49 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	robin.randhawa@....com, Steve.Bannister@....com,
	Liviu.Dudau@....com, charles.garcia-tobin@....com,
	rickard.andersson@...ricsson.com, fabio.baltieri@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] workqueue: define mod_scheduled_delayed_work[_on]()
 helpers

Hello, Viresh.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:44:52PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> To keep things aligned probably i should replace schedule_work() with
> queue_work() and use system_wq there too..

Yeah, that probably is more preferable.  There are codes like the
following in kernel and they always irk me.

	if (custom_wq)
		queue_work();
	else
		schedule_work();

It's just silly.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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