yeah ... cannot remember why i have done it originally :-| Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Ingo On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > Ingo, > > This has been in the workqueue code in day one, for no real reason that > I can see. We just tripped over it in SCSI because the fibre channel > transport class creates one workqueue per host with the name scsi_wq_%d > which trips this after we get to 100. Unfortunately we just came across > someone with > 100 host adapters ... > > I think the solution is just to get rid of the artificial limit. > > James > > diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c > --- a/kernel/workqueue.c > +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c > @@ -308,8 +308,6 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqu > struct workqueue_struct *wq; > struct task_struct *p; > > - BUG_ON(strlen(name) > 10); > - > wq = kmalloc(sizeof(*wq), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!wq) > return NULL; > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html