Re: [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API.

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > Why is this driver using a thread at all? It's only doing a bunch > of rather short-lived things in the thread. It's doing i2c reads and writes, which block, and are actually quite slow. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] macintosh/therm_pm72.c: Convert to kthread API.

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:47AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run > not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making > the code a little simpler and more maintaintable. Why is th