From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752934AbcGYTIj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:08:39 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f196.google.com ([209.85.220.196]:34313 "EHLO mail-qk0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752176AbcGYTIh (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:08:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:08:34 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Bhaktipriya Shridhar Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Geunyoung Kim , Junghak Sung , Hans Verkuil , Inki Dae , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] [media] cx25821: Drop Freeing of Workqueue Message-ID: <20160725190834.GM19588@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <20160725144952.GA11594@Karyakshetra> <8c263ffbbc4cfc9ef95ba0ba6f5dbebf253784c2.1469458280.git.bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8c263ffbbc4cfc9ef95ba0ba6f5dbebf253784c2.1469458280.git.bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 08:25:22PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote: > Workqueues shouldn't be freed. destroy_workqueue should be used instead. > destroy_workqueue safely destroys a workqueue and ensures that all pending > work items are done before destroying the workqueue. > > Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar Acked-by: Tejun Heo Mauro, can you please pick this one up? It prolly should be tagged for -stable too. Thanks. -- tejun