Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread

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Quoting Rusty Russell ([email protected]):
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:04 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Rusty Russell ([email protected]):
> > > 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?
> 
> Sorry, is kernel_thread going to be removed, or just not exported to
> modules?  What's kthread going to use?
> 
> Confused,
> Rusty.

Hah.

Yes, I see.  I misread.  So I should be focusing on modules  :)

Really, all *I* care about is cases where the resulting pid is cached
as a pointer to the thread, which it wasn't here anyway.  

thanks, sorry for the noise.

-serge
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