On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:51:41AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:42:45 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > macintosh-mediabay-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > > macintosh-adb-convert-to-the-kthread-api.patch > > > macintosh-therm_pm72c-partially-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > > powerpc-pseries-rtasd-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > > powerpc-pseries-eeh-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > > > > > Will send to paulus (I already did - does Paul not handle the macintosh > > > driver?) > > > > Please don't send out the partial kthread conversions, as they're not > > that helpful. Depending on the way we'll let the API evolve a > > kthread_create/run not paired by a kthread_stop might be actually harmful. > > > > Please only send along patches that are paired or always built in so that > > they don't require stopping at all. > > > > Btw, many of the drivers above should probably go to benh. > > > > There's probably a few more patches falling into this category, these > > were just the first one the stick into my eye. > > Yes, I think I'll probably drop all of them - I've completely lost track of > which ones are complete, which ones need more work, etc. > > I might send ia64-sn-xpc-convert-to-use-kthread-api.patch+fixes off to > Tony, as people put quite a bit of review and test effort into that one.
Andrew, I would recommend holding off on sending these xpc patches to Tony as the kthread_run()s aren't paired with kthread_stop()s yet. I need to generate an additional patch after I've first sorted out how best to deal with kthread_stop()'ng XPC's pool of kthreads with Eric. Thanks, Dean - 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/
