Re: [PATCH] macintosh/mediabay: Convert to kthread API.

> Looks OK - there's no way of stopping the kernel thread anyway.
> 
> It appears that nobody has tried to use this driver at the same time as
> software-suspend.  At least, not successfully.  A strategic try_to_freeze()
> should fix it.
> 
> This will become (a little) more serious when cpu hotplug is switched to
> use the process freezer, and perhaps it breaks kprobes already.

I'll dig a box with that hardware and do some tests, but it looks nice.

Thanks Eric !

There should be no problem with cpu hotplug, the only machines using the
media bay driver are old Apple laptops with only one CPU and no HW
threads.

Ben.


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