From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751387AbWFPMyL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:54:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbWFPMyL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:54:11 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:28829 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387AbWFPMyJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:54:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:54:03 -0500 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Rusty Russell Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Paul Mackerras , lkml - Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread Message-ID: <20060616125403.GA16194@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1150419895.10290.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060616030432.GA18037@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <1150430429.10290.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1150430429.10290.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au): > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:04 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au): > > > Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code > > > than it removed. > > > > So if kernel_thread is really going to be removed, how else should this > > be done? Just clone? > > Sorry, is kernel_thread going to be removed, or just not exported to > modules? What's kthread going to use? > > Confused, > Rusty. Hah. Yes, I see. I misread. So I should be focusing on modules :) Really, all *I* care about is cases where the resulting pid is cached as a pointer to the thread, which it wasn't here anyway. thanks, sorry for the noise. -serge