Re: Remaining straight forward kthread API conversions...

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Looks like you were missing at least the pcie hotplug driver. Another one of the horrible thread abuses in drivers/pci/hotpug. - full conversion to kthread infrastructure - use wake_up_process to wake the thread up Like most pci hotplug drivers it still uses very race non-atomic variable

Re: Remaining straight forward kthread API conversions...

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Looks like you were missing at least the pcie hotplug driver. Another one of the horrible thread abuses in drivers/pci/hotpug. - full conversion to kthread infrastructure - use wake_up_process to wake the thread up Like most pci hotplug drivers it still uses very race non-atomic variable

Remaining straight forward kthread API conversions...

2007-04-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
The following patches are against 2.6.21.rc6-mm1. Hopefully that is enough to catch most of the recent development activity. I am aiming to remove all kernel threads that handle signals from user space, to remove all calls to daemonize and kernel_thread from non-core kernel code. kernel

Remaining straight forward kthread API conversions...

2007-04-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
The following patches are against 2.6.21.rc6-mm1. Hopefully that is enough to catch most of the recent development activity. I am aiming to remove all kernel threads that handle signals from user space, to remove all calls to daemonize and kernel_thread from non-core kernel code. kernel