linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:22 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linas Vepstas <linas@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"<Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

> Since we need to have some way to track them having an explicit data
> structure that the callers manage seems to make sense.

Oh sure, I wasn't arguing against that at all...

It might be handy to have a release() callback (optional) that gets
called after the kthread stops/exits, once we know the data structure
isn't going to be used anymore (if practical to implement, depends on
your approach).

Ben.


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