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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:44:11AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:45:24PM -0500, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Then please document it _clearly_ with the kthread code somewhere. 
> 
> Document as well in the kernel_thread() API, as I notice people still
> use kernel_thread() some places (ex: rtasd.c in powerpc arch)?

They shouldn't use kernel_thread.