From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751170AbWFJPm1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:42:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751181AbWFJPm1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:42:27 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47822 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751170AbWFJPm1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:42:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:42:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stefan Richter Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Serge E. Hallyn" , weihs@ict.tuwien.ac.at, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bcollins@debian.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread conversion: convert ieee1394 from kernel_thread Message-ID: <20060610154213.GA19077@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Stefan Richter , "Serge E. Hallyn" , weihs@ict.tuwien.ac.at, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bcollins@debian.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , lkml References: <20060610143100.GA15536@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20060610144205.GA13850@infradead.org> <448AE12E.5060002@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <448AE12E.5060002@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 05:11:42PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Serge, could you reduce your patch to the nodemgr part and resubmit? I'd prefer ieee1394 would just stop creating these thread entirely. Sure, rescaning the bus might take some time, but so do pci or especially scsi bus rescans. A user should expect his thread to block when he writes to an attribute caled rescan.