Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:04:55 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather > than the deprecated kernel_threads. > > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly special, low-level interface.
Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code than it removed.
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