Quoting Rusty Russell ([email protected]):
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather
> > than the deprecated kernel_threads.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]>
>
> kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly
> special, low-level interface.
>
> Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code
> than it removed.
So if kernel_thread is really going to be removed, how else should this
be done? Just clone?
-serge
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