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From: "Steve French (smfltc)" <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
To: "Q (Igor Mammedov)" <qwerty0987654321@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: cifs and kthread_run / kernel_thread
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:12:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46111D66.8060208@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4610B80F.9020102@mail.ru>

Q (Igor Mammedov) wrote:

> Steve French (smfltc) wrote:
>
>> No - IIRC the original patch (for the switch of cifs from 
>> kernel_thread to kthread) had a
>> minor implementation problem in handling the cifs_demultiplex thread, 
>> so this one small
>> area was left with the old style.
>>
>>> iii) Is it difficult to switch to the new interface?
>>>  
>>>
>> No, I don't think so, but I have not investigated it.  We would be happy
>> to review and test a patch for this though.
>>
>>> ***************************
>>
>
> It seems to me that I rewrote cifs_demultiplex_thread to use 
> kthread_run in DFS patch.
>
Yes - Q's  patch has the final change to kthread (as part of a larger 
DFS change).  The original
patch which switched to kthread was done long before this.

I have not broken all the large dfs patch into small pieces but will 
look to see if just this part
can be done easily

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-02 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070331120030.BE6A916387F@lists.samba.org>
2007-04-01 19:12 ` cifs and kthread_run / kernel_thread Steve French (smfltc)
2007-04-02  8:00   ` [linux-cifs-client] " Q (Igor Mammedov)
2007-04-02  8:58     ` Wilhelm Meier
2007-04-02 15:40       ` Wilhelm Meier
2007-04-02 15:55         ` Steve French (smfltc)
2007-04-02 15:12     ` Steve French (smfltc) [this message]
2007-04-03 19:17 Steve French
2007-04-03 19:18 ` [linux-cifs-client] " Jeremy Allison

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