Re: [PATCH] flush_work_sync vs. flush_scheduled_work Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> If we can't just cancel the work, can't we do something like
> 
> 	if (cancel_work_sync(w))
> 		w->func(w);
> 
> instead?

 We do an equivalent of this -- all that we care about that w->func(w) 
would do is enable_irq() and the rest we want to skip at this point.  We 
probably do not need the counter in the end though.

  Maciej
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