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

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Message-ID: <46285C6B.7080101@sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:23:39 +0200
From:	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"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.

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.

Cheers,
Jes
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