linux-kernel - Re: "partical" kthread conversion

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Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 01:51:41 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: "partical" kthread conversion

On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:42:45 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  macintosh-mediabay-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
> >  macintosh-adb-convert-to-the-kthread-api.patch
> >  macintosh-therm_pm72c-partially-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
> >  powerpc-pseries-rtasd-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
> >  powerpc-pseries-eeh-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
> > 
> > Will send to paulus (I already did - does Paul not handle the macintosh
> > driver?)
> 
> Please don't send out the partial kthread conversions, as they're not
> that helpful.  Depending on the way we'll let the API evolve a
> kthread_create/run not paired by a kthread_stop might be actually harmful.
> 
> Please only send along patches that are paired or always built in so that
> they don't require stopping at all.
> 
> Btw, many of the drivers above should probably go to benh.
> 
> There's probably a few more patches falling into this category, these
> were just the first one the stick into my eye.

Yes, I think I'll probably drop all of them - I've completely lost track of
which ones are complete, which ones need more work, etc.

I might send ia64-sn-xpc-convert-to-use-kthread-api.patch+fixes off to
Tony, as people put quite a bit of review and test effort into that one.

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