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From: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:02:14 +0000
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Subject: Re: [RFCv11 PATCH 26/29] vim2m: use workqueue
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
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        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
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Hi Hans,

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:20 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>

> v4l2_ctrl uses mutexes, so we can't setup a ctrl_handler in
> interrupt context. Switch to a workqueue instead.

Could it make more sense to just replace the old (non-hr) timer used in
this driver with delayed work?

Best regards,
Tomasz