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Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:12:16 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Scott Murray <scottm@...anetworks.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, "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 Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:07:49PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote: > Sorry, it took me a few days to get to testing this out. It looks good, > but I had to make a couple of tweaks to avoid a hang when rmmod'ing a > board driver. The board drivers do: > > cpci_hp_stop() > cpci_hp_unregister_controller(controller) > > to shutdown, and the check in cpci_hp_unregister_controller if the thread > is running wasn't working due to a bit too much code being excised. The > result was kthread_stop being called twice, which hangs. I've indicated > my changes to avoid this inline below. Can you forward the patches with your fix to Andrew to make sure he picks it up? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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