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Message-Id: <20070419165103.5b671b28.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:51:03 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:58:44 -0600
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> This patch starts the xpc kernel threads using kthread_run
> not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Resuling
> in slightly simpler and more maintainable code.
>
> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---
> arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------
Another driver which should be fully converted to the kthread API:
kthread_stop() and kthread_should_stop().
And according to my logs, this driver was added to the tree more than
a year _after_ the kthread interface was made available.
This isn't good.
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