On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:30:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> : root 319 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:51 0:00 [pccardd]
>
> hm.
One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that would
otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state machine
implementation to a much more readable linearly coded implementation.
Could probably be eliminated if we had some mechanism to spawn a helper
thread to do some task as required which didn't block other helper
threads until it completes.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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