Re: [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API.

Christoph Hellwig writes:

> Why is this driver using a thread at all?  It's only doing a bunch
> of rather short-lived things in the thread.

It's doing i2c reads and writes, which block, and are actually quite
slow.

Paul.
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References:
- Remaining straight forward kthread API conversions...
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
- [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API.
  - From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API.
  - From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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