From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
To: "dedekind1@gmail.com" <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: "dwmw2@infradead.org" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"david.wagner@free-electrons.com"
<david.wagner@free-electrons.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: new module ubiblk: block layer on top of UBI
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:50:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E09EA52.8090006@parrot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309202771.24805.11.camel@koala>
Hi,
Artem Bityutskiy a écrit :
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:34 +0200, david.wagner@free-electrons.com
> wrote:
>> + /* Stolen from mtd_blkdevs.c */
>> + /* Create processing thread */
>> + dev->thread = kthread_run(ubi_ubiblk_thread, dev, "%s%d_%d",
>> + "kubiblkd", dev->ubi_num, dev->vol_id);
>> + if (IS_ERR(dev->thread)) {
>> + ret = PTR_ERR(dev->thread);
>> + goto out_thread;
>> + }
>
> Why we need a kernel thread? Could you please describe when exactly it
> is needed and why we cannot avoid having it?
Also what are the advantage against gluebi + mtdblock_ro ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 13:34 [RFC] ubiblk: read-only block layer on top of UBI david.wagner
2011-06-24 13:34 ` [PATCH] UBI: new module ubiblk: " david.wagner
2011-06-27 19:26 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-28 11:35 ` David Wagner
2011-06-29 6:52 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-28 14:50 ` Matthieu CASTET [this message]
2011-06-28 15:32 ` David Wagner
2011-06-29 6:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-27 19:14 ` [RFC] ubiblk: read-only " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-28 15:24 ` [RFC PATCHv2] UBI: new module ubiblk: " david.wagner
2011-06-29 6:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-07-26 12:27 ` [PATCH] " David Wagner
2011-07-26 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 12:58 ` David Wagner
2011-07-28 6:14 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-15 11:56 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-17 13:17 ` [PATCHv3] " david.wagner
2011-08-17 14:20 ` [PATCH] Tools for controling ubiblk David Wagner
2011-08-22 8:17 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-22 7:39 ` [PATCHv3] UBI: new module ubiblk: block layer on top of UBI Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-22 7:42 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-24 16:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-25 7:06 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-25 15:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-01 12:55 ` David Wagner
2011-09-06 3:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-06 4:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-06 4:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-08 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-09 11:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-09 12:02 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-09 14:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-09 15:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-09 14:41 ` David Wagner
2011-09-09 14:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-11 10:18 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-11 10:35 ` David Wagner
2011-08-24 16:15 ` [PATCHv4] " david.wagner
2011-08-24 16:21 ` [PATCH] document ubiblk's usage of the same ioctl magic as a part " David Wagner
2011-09-06 4:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-06 4:55 ` [PATCHv4] UBI: new module ubiblk: block layer on top " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-12 9:51 ` [PATCHv5] " David Wagner
2011-09-19 4:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-22 7:58 ` [PATCHv6] " David Wagner
2011-09-23 10:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-26 12:58 ` David Wagner
2011-09-26 9:17 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-09-26 12:11 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-09-26 12:38 ` [PATCHv7] " David Wagner
2011-09-26 13:20 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-26 14:25 ` [PATCHv8] " David Wagner
2011-09-26 14:36 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-09-26 14:40 ` [PATCHv9] " David Wagner
2011-10-01 14:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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