From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753896AbXDSXVD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:21:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753931AbXDSXVB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:21:01 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:38465 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753896AbXDSXVA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:21:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:20:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: , Oleg Nesterov , Christoph Hellwig , , Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] bluetooth hidp: Convert to kthread API. Message-Id: <20070419162037.ed6d3f93.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1176969605114-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> References: <1176969605114-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.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 01:58:53 -0600 "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > This patch starts up khidp using kthread_run instead > of kernel_thread and daemonize, resulting is slightly > simpler and more maintainable code. argh, they're all like this :( It's a shame your changelogs didn't fully spell out the reasons for this conversion. Right now, the maintainers probably think that these are nice-to-have cleanups, not must-have-to-make-virtualisation-work-right fixes.