Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2007 01:51:41 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: "partical" kthread conversion |
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On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:42:45 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > macintosh-mediabay-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > macintosh-adb-convert-to-the-kthread-api.patch > > macintosh-therm_pm72c-partially-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > powerpc-pseries-rtasd-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > powerpc-pseries-eeh-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > > > Will send to paulus (I already did - does Paul not handle the macintosh > > driver?) > > Please don't send out the partial kthread conversions, as they're not > that helpful. Depending on the way we'll let the API evolve a > kthread_create/run not paired by a kthread_stop might be actually harmful. > > Please only send along patches that are paired or always built in so that > they don't require stopping at all. > > Btw, many of the drivers above should probably go to benh. > > There's probably a few more patches falling into this category, these > were just the first one the stick into my eye.
Yes, I think I'll probably drop all of them - I've completely lost track of which ones are complete, which ones need more work, etc.
I might send ia64-sn-xpc-convert-to-use-kthread-api.patch+fixes off to Tony, as people put quite a bit of review and test effort into that one.
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