Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove kernel/kthread.c:kthread_stop_sem()

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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This patch moves the otherwise unused kthread_stop_sem() into 
> > kthread_stop().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > This patch was already sent on:
> > - 29 Jun 2006
> > 
> >  include/linux/kthread.h |   12 ------------
> >  kernel/kthread.c        |   14 ++------------
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Hum, OK.  That's basically a `patch -R' of Alan's
> "[patch] Add kthread_stop_sem()".
> 
> Alan, are you OK with reverting that?

Yes.  I wrote it originally for use with the SCSI error-handler thread,
but then James Bottomley changed it so that it didn't wait on a semaphore.  
So if nobody else is using it, kthread_stop_sem() can go.

Alan Stern

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