From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754136AbXDSXGZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754129AbXDSXGZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:25 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:43554 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753965AbXDSXGZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:05:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , containers@lists.osdl.org, Oleg Nesterov , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/rxrpc: Convert to kthread API. Message-Id: <20070419160530.1fed265f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <29341.1176975158@redhat.com> References: <11769696211263-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <29341.1176975158@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:32:38 +0100 David Howells wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > This patch modifies the startup of krxtimod, krxiod, and krxsecd > > to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread > > and daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable. > > Again, please drop in favour of my RxRPC patches. > Do those patches convert all this code over to full use of the kthread API? Because it seems that a conversion would be straightforward, and is needed.