On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <[email protected]> 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. > > Signed-off-by: David Kershner <[email protected]> Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as they are received. I presently have Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Acked-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler for the various trees. -- 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/
