linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.

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Message-ID: <20070420142140.GB17368@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:21:40 -0500
From:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dean Nelson <dcn@...ricas.sgi.com>
Cc:	Jes Sorensen <jes@...ricas.sgi.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	rja@....com, holt@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:23:39AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Per my previous response, I'd prefer to have either Russ or Robin ack
> the patch doesn't break before it's pushed to Linus.
> 
> I don't know much about the xpmem and I am not comfortable testing it.

I think this was originally coded with daemonize to avoid issues with
reaping children.  Dean Nelson can correct me if I am wrong.  I assume
this patch is going in as part of the set which will make these threads
clear themselves from the children list and if that is the case, I can
see no issues.

Thanks,
Robin
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