Re: [PATCH] kthread: airo.c

[Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>]

Christoph Hellwig [hch@infradead.org] wrote:
| On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:53:19PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > Andrew,
| > 
| > Javier Achirica, one of the major contributors to drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
| > took a look at this patch, and doesn't have any problems with it. It doesn't
| > fix any bugs and is just a cleanup, so it certainly isn't a candidate
| > for this mainline cycle
| 
| I'm not sure it's that easy.  I think it needs some more love:
| 
|  - switch to wake_uo_process
|  - kill JOB_DIE
|  - cleanup a the convoluted mess in airo_thread a bit
| 
| Note that it's still reimplementing the single threaded workqueue
| functionality quite badly.  So if someone could switch it over and while
| we're at it try to kill the idiociy of doing the trylock in the calling
| context and only then calling the thread by always calling the thread
| (which also solves the synchronization problem).
| 
| Anywhy, here's a small incremental patch ontop of yours to implement my
| above items:

I had a quick look at your patch and looks fine to me. I agree we could
do more to clean up the driver.

My inital goal was to  replace kernel_thread() with kthread_*(). So can I
assume you are ok with my patch and that it can go in as is ?

Suka