Quoting Andrew Morton ([email protected]):
> Again: why is this so hard? It shouldn't be. Perhaps because loop is
> using completions in bizarre ways where it should be using
> wake_up_process(), wait_event(), etc.
Ah.
wait_event() actually seems like the way to go - I'll try to follow the
example in fs/ocfs2/journal.c.
Still I'd also like to patch kthread to correctly handle an already
exited thread. Would that be acceptable, or is requiring the thread not
to exit prematurely considered desirable?
thanks,
-serge
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