[Devel] Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries rtasd: Convert to kthread API.

Sun Apr 22 05:34:56 PDT 2007

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:46AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> 
> This patch modifies the startup of rtasd to use kthread_run instaed of
> a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize.  Making the code a little
> simpler and more maintainble.

Looks okay, but I have some questions about the original code.

Why does the driver only check if it really needs to run in the
thread and calls vmalloc from it?  If we did all these in the
initialization function we could actually properly unwind.

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