Re: [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> umm..  Putting a work_struct* into struct cpu_workqueue_struct and then
> doing appropriate things with cpu_workqueue_struct.lock might work.

Yeah, that looks sane. We can't hide anything in "struct work", because we 
can't trust it any more once it's been dispatched, but adding a pointer to 
the cpu_workqueue_struct that is only used to compare against another 
pointer sounds fine.

		Linus
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