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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:22:25 -0400
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Oliver Neukum" <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock
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On 3/15/07, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 13:31 schrieb Hugh Dickins:
> > Quite apart from this mysterious "other task", I don't understand
> > "access" either.
> >
> > Perhaps "defer" would best capture the idea of another-task and
> > maybe-delay? sysfs_defer_work(), struct sysfs_deferred_work?
>
> But we do not wish to defer or delay anything.
> How about: sysfs_action_from_neutral_context
>

How about sysfs_schedule_work? That is what it does - schedules a work
on a sysfs object and everyone here knows what schedule_work() does.

-- 
Dmitry