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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231210320.3671@rancor.yyz.somanetworks.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Scott Murray <scottm@...anetworks.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"<Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:55:29AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> - unquoted
> > 
> > kthread_run replaces the kernel_thread and  daemonize calls
> > during thread startup.
> > 
> > Calls to signal_pending were also removed as it is currently
> > impossible for the cpci_hotplug thread to receive signals.
> 
> This drivers thread are a bit of a miss, although a lot better than
> most other pci hotplug drivers :)

Heh, I guess I'll take that as a compliment. :)
 
> Below is more complete conversion to the kthread infrastructure +
> wake_up_process to wake the thread.  Note that we had to keep
> a thread_finished variable because the existing one had dual use.
[snip]

I'm out of the office today, but I'll give it a spin on a test setup 
tomorrow.

Thanks,

Scott


-- 
Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@...anetworks.com
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