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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:25:19 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To: Viral Mehta <viral.mehta@...fochips.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel_thread question
Viral Mehta wrote:
> int my_thread(void*)
> {
> if(printk("blah"))
> return 5; //WHERE THE HELL THIS VALUE GOES !! ?? !! HOW CAN I
> SEE ITS RETURN VALUE ???
The return value is passed over to kthread_stop(). If you don't use
kthread_stop(), the return value of threadfn does not matter.
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.28/kernel/kthread.c#L187
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