Christoph Hellwig writes:
> Why is this driver using a thread at all? It's only doing a bunch
> of rather short-lived things in the thread.
It's doing i2c reads and writes, which block, and are actually quite
slow.
Paul.
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:47AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
> not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
> the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Why is
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:47AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Why is this
Christoph Hellwig writes:
Why is this driver using a thread at all? It's only doing a bunch
of rather short-lived things in the thread.
It's doing i2c reads and writes, which block, and are actually quite
slow.
Paul.
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From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - unquoted
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
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