Re: please revert kthread from loop.c

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> Very sorry.

No problem, just something I happened to notice, that's all.

> Subject: [PATCH] kthread: convert loop.c to use kthread
> 
> Convert loop.c to use kthread in place of the deprecated
> kernel_thread.
> 
> Update: Keep the lo_done completion to indicate when the
> 	loop_thread is ready.  Otherwise a user gets the
> 	go-ahead early and may start an ioctl before
> 	loop_thread is in fact ready.
> 
> 	Also fix some other bugs including misnaming the thread,
> 	found by Andrew Morton, and not setting lo->thread as
> 	pointed out by Hugh Dickins.
> 
> 	This version has passed parallel runs of the following
> 	script (on different devices of course), i.e.

But not good for me.  Gets further e.g. 170 iterations,
but then hangs while kthread_stop waits for completion.

I haven't investigated further.  Is there really any reason
to be messing with what has worked well for so long here?

Hugh