Re: [PATCH 1/15] EDAC: switch to kthread_ API

From: Dave Peterson
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 18:18:38 EST


On Friday 03 March 2006 07:57, Doug Thompson wrote:
> Currently the timer event code performs two operations:
>
> 1) ECC polling and
> 2) PCI parity polling.
>
> I want to split those from each other, so each can have a seperate cycle
> rate (also adding a sysfs cycle control for the PCI parity timing in
> addition to the existing ECC cycle control).

Yes, this sounds like a good idea. Using schedule_delayed_work() to
independently implement each polling cycle, we should be able to get
rid of the EDAC kernel thread.
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