Re: [Question] about patch: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()

From	Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [Question] about patch: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
Date	2016-09-05 16:20 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:41:39AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 03:29:39AM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Reason: any other [early-boot] invoker of cancel_delayed_work_sync()
> > would hit the same issue,
> > without any fix then available locally each.
> > 
> > This may or may not be intentional.
> > Just wanted to point it out.
> 
> idk, invoking a blocking API from early boot is pretty special (as
> with everything during early boot), so I think it's fine to handle
> them as execeptions.

Yup, this sounds like the rationale that I would have expected.

Andreas

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Re: [Question] about patch: don't use [delayed_]work_pending() Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> - 2016-09-04 03:40 +0200
  Re: [Question] about patch: don't use [delayed_]work_pending() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-09-05 14:50 +0200
    Re: [Question] about patch: don't use [delayed_]work_pending() Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> - 2016-09-05 16:20 +0200

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