On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:37:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:58:38 -0600 > > "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > This patch modifies the sas scsi host thread startup > > > to use kthread_run not kernel_thread and deamonize. > > > kthread_run is slightly simpler and more maintainable. > > > > > > > Again, I'll rename this to "partially convert...". This driver should be > > using kthread_should_stop() and kthread_stop() rather than the > > apparently-unnecessary ->queue_thread_kill thing. > > > > This driver was merged two and a half years after the kthread API was > > available. Our coding-vs-reviewing effort is out of balance. > > Here's a full conversion.
Changelog and cc to linux-scsi, and I think it can go in ... not that it matters; nothing ever activates this code inside libsas anyway ... James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
