linux-kernel - "partical" kthread conversion

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Message-ID: <20070501084245.GA14364@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 09:42:45 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: "partical" kthread conversion

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  macintosh-mediabay-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
>  macintosh-adb-convert-to-the-kthread-api.patch
>  macintosh-therm_pm72c-partially-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
>  powerpc-pseries-rtasd-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
>  powerpc-pseries-eeh-convert-to-kthread-api.patch
> 
> Will send to paulus (I already did - does Paul not handle the macintosh
> driver?)

Please don't send out the partial kthread conversions, as they're not
that helpful.  Depending on the way we'll let the API evolve a
kthread_create/run not paired by a kthread_stop might be actually harmful.

Please only send along patches that are paired or always built in so that
they don't require stopping at all.

Btw, many of the drivers above should probably go to benh.

There's probably a few more patches falling into this category, these
were just the first one the stick into my eye.
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