[Devel] [PATCH] i386 voyager: Convert the monitor thread to use the kthread API

[Eric W. Biederman]

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> - unquoted

This patch just trivially replaces kernel_thread and daemonize
with a single call to kthread_run.

CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
---
 arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c b/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
index ebfd913..ee23d9b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <asm/desc.h>
 #include <asm/voyager.h>
 #include <asm/vic.h>
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ static __u8 set_timeout = 0;
 static int __init
 voyager_thread_start(void)
 {
-	if(kernel_thread(thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) < 0) {
+	if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(thread, NULL, "%s", THREAD_NAME))) {
 		/* This is serious, but not fatal */
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Voyager: Failed to create system monitor thread!!!\n");
 		return 1;
@@ -122,8 +123,6 @@ thread(void *unused)
 
 	kvoyagerd_running = 1;
 
-	daemonize(THREAD_NAME);
-
 	set_timeout = 0;
 
 	init_timer(&wakeup_timer);
-- 
1.5.0.g53756

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