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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
