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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()
From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 21:08 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> daemonize() is only needed when a user-space task does kernel_thread().
> 
> eeh_event_handler() thread is created by the worker kthread, and thus
> it doesn't need the soon-to-be-deprecated daemonize().
> 
> Note: looks like eeh_event_wq can be static and it can do all work
> itself without kernel_thread().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>