From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> - unquoted

This patch modifies the startup of eehd to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize.  Making
the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.

Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c
index 221dec8..fe7c2e0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <asm/eeh_event.h>
 #include <asm/ppc-pci.h>
 
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ static int eeh_event_handler(void * dummy)
 	struct eeh_event	*event;
 	struct pci_dn *pdn;
 
-	daemonize ("eehd");
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&eeh_eventlist_lock, flags);
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int eeh_event_handler(void * dummy)
  */
 static void eeh_thread_launcher(struct work_struct *dummy)
 {
-	if (kernel_thread(eeh_event_handler, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) < 0)
+	if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(eeh_event_handler, NULL, "eehd")))
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to start EEH daemon\n");
 }
 
-- 
1.5.0.g53756

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