On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:45 AM, David Kershner > <david.kersh...@unisys.com> wrote: > > The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue > > being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message > > that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that > > happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the > > service partition is back again. > > > > The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we > > get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume > > it when the problem clears. > > > > We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported > > from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions. > > Are you sure that you need these function? > You would be the first user.
And a reasonable one. The use case is sensible and it's preferrable that people reuse known to work core facilities instead of creating their own variants. > Please see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/8/1150 Please do not use lkml.org links. lkml.org sucks. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
