On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:55:29AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > From: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> - unquoted
> >
> > kthread_run replaces the kernel_thread and daemonize calls
> > during thread startup.
> >
> > Calls to signal_pending were also removed as it is currently
> > impossible for the cpci_hotplug thread to receive signals.
>
> This drivers thread are a bit of a miss, although a lot better than
> most other pci hotplug drivers :)
Heh, I guess I'll take that as a compliment. :)
> Below is more complete conversion to the kthread infrastructure +
> wake_up_process to wake the thread. Note that we had to keep
> a thread_finished variable because the existing one had dual use.
[snip]
I'm out of the office today, but I'll give it a spin on a test setup
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Scott
--
Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: [email protected]
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