netdev - Re: pktgen

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Date:	Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:17:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hch@...radead.org
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se,
	adobriyan@...il.com, pavol.gono@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pktgen

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:22:25 +0000

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:14:23PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > Agreed.
> > 
> > Robert, please fix this by using a completion so that we can
> > wait for the threads to start up, something like this:
> 
> No, that's wrong aswell :)  Please use the kthread_ API that takes
> care of all this.  kernel_thread is going away mid-term, so you'd
> have to do this work anyway.

I was going to suggest this Christophe, but I wanted a change small
and easy enough to verify in order to merge the fix into the -stable
branch.  Converting the thing over to kthread would make the change
more risky in such a context.

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