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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues
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On Fri, 16 May 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:

> > Could we fix that? A workqueue is not a device but more a kernel setting.
> >
> > /sys/kernel/workqueue/.... ?
>
> Right, that could have been more in line with slab files.  It's
> already too late tho.  This has been exposed for quite a while now.
> Urgh...

It sets a bad precedent. So move to /sys/kernel/workqueue and lets have a
symlink that goes back?