Re: [PATCH] [media] s5p-mfc: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jul 18 2016 - 19:43:15 EST


On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 02:00:25PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue().
>
> The MFC device driver is a v4l2 driver which can encode/decode video
> raw/elementary streams and has support for all popular video codecs.
>
> The driver's watchdog_workqueue has been replaced with system_wq since
> it queues a single work item, &dev->watchdog_work, which calls for no
> ordering requirement. The work item is involved in running the watchdog
> timer and is not being used on a memory reclaim path.
>
> Work item has been flushed in s5p_mfc_remove() to ensure
> that there are no pending tasks while disconnecting the driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun