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Date:      Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:38:54 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, smp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Releasing interrupts? 
Message-ID:  <200010060138.TAA03855@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Oct 2000 16:08:13 PDT." <20001005160813.R58256@canonware.com> 
References:  <20001005160813.R58256@canonware.com>  <XFMail.001005121431.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200010051918.NAA01346@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20001005160813.R58256@canonware.com> Jason Evans writes:
: Good to hear it.  With regard to thread cancellation, it's another example
: of a feature that, if used, usually indicates poor program design, so I
: hope that we don't find a need for kthread_cancel().

Even for the interrupt threads?  I'd think you'd want to kill them
when their reference count goes to zero.  It certainly looks weird in
the ps listing to see ed1 on irq 11 when you know you ejected the
card...

Warner


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