linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sas_scsi_host: Convert to use the kthread API

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Message-Id: <1177277868.4268.16.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:37:48 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sas_scsi_host: Convert to use the kthread API

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:37:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:58:38 -0600
> > "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> > > 
> > > This patch modifies the sas scsi host thread startup
> > > to use kthread_run not kernel_thread and deamonize.
> > > kthread_run is slightly simpler and more maintainable.
> > > 
> > 
> > Again, I'll rename this to "partially convert...".  This driver should be
> > using kthread_should_stop() and kthread_stop() rather than the
> > apparently-unnecessary ->queue_thread_kill thing.
> > 
> > This driver was merged two and a half years after the kthread API was
> > available.   Our coding-vs-reviewing effort is out of balance.
> 
> Here's a full conversion.

Changelog and cc to linux-scsi, and I think it can go in ... not that it
matters; nothing ever activates this code inside libsas anyway ...

James


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