linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc pseries rtasd: Convert to kthread API.

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:55:41 -0600
From:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:	"<Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	<containers@...ts.osdl.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc pseries rtasd: Convert to kthread API.

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> - unquoted

This patch modifies the startup of rtasd to use kthread_run instaed of
a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize.  Making the code a little
simpler and more maintainble.

Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c
index 77d0937..919a374 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -429,8 +430,6 @@ static int rtasd(void *unused)
 	int event_scan = rtas_token("event-scan");
 	int rc;
 
-	daemonize("rtasd");
-
 	if (event_scan == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE || get_eventscan_parms() == -1)
 		goto error;
 
@@ -497,7 +496,7 @@ static int __init rtas_init(void)
 	else
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create error_log proc entry\n");
 
-	if (kernel_thread(rtasd, NULL, CLONE_FS) < 0)
+	if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(rtasd, NULL, "rtasd")))
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to start RTAS daemon\n");
 
 	return 0;
-- 
1.5.0.g53756

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