From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:04:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150419895.10290.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather
> than the deprecated kernel_threads.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly
special, low-level interface.
Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code
than it removed.
Rusty.
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next parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-16 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
2006-06-16 1:04 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2006-06-16 3:04 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-16 3:54 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-16 4:00 ` Rusty Russell
2006-06-16 12:54 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-18 12:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-15 14:43 Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-20 3:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 3:20 ` Erik Ohrnberger
2006-06-20 8:27 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-20 8:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 16:27 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-20 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21 0:52 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-06-21 1:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21 1:44 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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