Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH v4 11/18] input: Add initial support for TWL6040 vibrator

From: Péter Ujfalusi
Date: Thu Jun 16 2011 - 06:11:46 EST


On Wednesday 15 June 2011 10:23:01 Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:18:58AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > No human being can feel 120usec difference and I can't see how using
> > HIGHPRI is justified here (which is what the code is doing
> > _accidentally_ by using singlethread_workqueue).
>
> Ooh, one more thing, and even if you insist on using HIGHPRI (please
> don't), you don't need to create workqueue for each device. You can
> just create one for the whole driver in init and destroy it from exit.
> What matters is the HIGHPRI attribute of the workqueue. The number of
> workqueues is completely irrelevant.

Fair enough.
I'll move to create_workqueue.
If we later find issues with this (in a 'live' system), we can figure out a
way to fix it.

Thank you for your time on this.
I'll make the changes accordingly.

Regards,
Péter
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