linux-kernel - Re: Sending signals to a kernel thread, broken in 2.6.22

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 08:22:18 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sending signals to a kernel thread, broken in 2.6.22

Hi.

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:51 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. Given Oleg's reply, it could pay to check that freezable kernel
> > threads are still being frozen.
> 
> I don't think we have to worry about this.  See this discussion thread:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?t=118045713200006&r=1&w=2
> 
> and in particular this message:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118046964817995&w=2

Ok, cool. Thanks both of you for the quick reply.

Nigel

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