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 <ebiederm@xmission.com> - 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


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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com
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