firmware_class: Move request_firmware_nowait() to workqueues
authorStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:31:00 +0000 (23:31 +0200)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:31:00 +0000 (23:31 +0200)
commita36cf844c543c6193445a7b1492d16e5a8cf376e
tree7839e51c505a12662ada9affef4cc9da5277b192
parentdddb5549da6b15ea8b9ce9ee0859c8d1fa268b5b
firmware_class: Move request_firmware_nowait() to workqueues

Oddly enough a work_struct was already part of the firmware_work
structure but nobody was using it. Instead of creating a new
kthread for each request_firmware_nowait() call just schedule the
work on the system workqueue. This should avoid some overhead
in forking new threads when they're not strictly necessary.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
drivers/base/firmware_class.c