From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993143AbXDSHGh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:06:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993136AbXDSHFY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:05:24 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:34604 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993139AbXDSHFB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:05:01 -0400 From: "Eric W. Biederman" To: " Cc: , Oleg Nesterov , Christoph Hellwig , , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: [PATCH] arm ecard: Conver to use the kthread API. Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:55:38 -0600 Message-Id: <11769657822083-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.0.rc1.gb60d In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Eric W. Biederman - unquoted This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use kthread_run not a kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable. Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c index f1c0fb9..6c15f5f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -263,8 +264,6 @@ static int ecard_init_mm(void) static int ecard_task(void * unused) { - daemonize("kecardd"); - /* * Allocate a mm. We're not a lazy-TLB kernel task since we need * to set page table entries where the user space would be. Note @@ -1058,13 +1057,14 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type) */ static int __init ecard_init(void) { - int slot, irqhw, ret; + struct task_struct *task; + int slot, irqhw; - ret = kernel_thread(ecard_task, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); - if (ret < 0) { + task = kthread_run(ecard_task, NULL, "kecardd"); + if (IS_ERR(task)) { printk(KERN_ERR "Ecard: unable to create kernel thread: %d\n", - ret); - return ret; + PTR_ERR(task)); + return PTR_ERR(task); } printk("Probing expansion cards\n"); -- 1.5.0.g53756