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On 8/28/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > The plan is to stop using the deprecated kernel_thread() in loop altogether. > > Please review > > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc4/2.6.18-rc4-mm3/broken-out/kthread-convert-loopc-to-kthread.patch > Well, the reason behind this patch is just adding a little bit of cleanup code (ie., cleaning the 'lo' object) to the case when the kernel thread creation fails, regardless of what implementation loop_set_fd() uses to accomplish this. In fact, I think the concept it's still usable after applying the patch you mentioned, since after changing kernel_thread() for kthread_create(), the only cleanup code added is setting lo->lo_thread to NULL. Cheers, Julio Auto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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