linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/afs: Convert to kthread API.

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Message-ID: <29317.1176975127@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:32:07 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"<Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/afs: Convert to kthread API. 

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> This patch modifies the startup of kafscmd, kafsasyncd, and kafstimod
> to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread and
> daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.

Please drop this patch for the moment as I have my own patches to convert them
to keventd-type threads, in addition to implementing a host of other changes.

David
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