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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:37:08 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 20/20] thermal/intel_powerclamp: Convert the kthread
 to kthread worker API
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On Thu 2016-08-25 10:33:17, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2016-04-14 17:14:39 [+0200], Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Kthreads are currently implemented as an infinite loop. Each
> > has its own variant of checks for terminating, freezing,
> > awakening. In many cases it is unclear to say in which state
> > it is and sometimes it is done a wrong way.
> 
> What is the status of this? This is the last email I received and it is
> from April.

There were still some discussions about the kthread worker API.
Anyway, the needed kthread API changes are in Andrew's -mm tree now
and will be hopefully included in 4.9.

I did not want to send the patches using the API before the API
changes are upstream. But I could send the two intel_powerclamp
patches now if you are comfortable with having them on top of
the -mm tree or linux-next.

Best Regards,
Petr