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ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a private workqueue
authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:02:28 +0000 (01:02 -0300)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:47:03 +0000 (09:47 -0400)
commite0e3c0615abdb1c3e28356595f7be87627288d5b
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ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a private workqueue

Switch all task workers to a private thinkpad-acpi workqueue.

This way, we don't risk causing trouble for other tasks scheduled to the
default work queue, as our workers end up needing to access the ACPI EC,
run ACPI AML code, trigger SMI traps... and none of those are exactly known
to be fast, simple operations.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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