On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> All user-mode-helpers are async as of this patch.
>
> The reason for the serialization is that we need to wait until the exec()
> has taken place - so that the arguments that the caller set up haven't
> disappeared from the caller stack. The actual execution is asynchronous
> anyway.
OK, I see what's happening. But is it strictly necessary to special-case
it? If we can't use schedule_task() in all situations and hence have to
have code for doing it ourself - why not just do it ourself all the time,
keeping the code simpler?
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dwmw2
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