On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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.
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