Russell tricked me to look into the homebrewn kthread hackery of drivers/mmc. I'm still trying to recover from that. But it spurred an interesting discussion how to improve things and the outcome was the following series of patches: 1) Provide means to synchronize only hard irq context 2) Provide means to trigger a threaded irq handler from any context The main rationale is to cleanup the mess in drivers/mmc and other places but each of the patches has a justification for itself exemplified by the drivers/mmc use case, which is explained in detail in the changelogs of the individual patches. Russell has a working implementation for sdhci which relies on patch #1 ready and quite some ideas how to make use of #2 to kill the sdio_irq kthread hackery. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
