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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: remove r8712_cmd_thread()->daemonize()
On 08/16/2011 02:35 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:50:57PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> daemonize() is only needed when a user-space task does kernel_thread().
>>
>> r8712_cmd_thread() is kthread_create()'ed and thus it doesn't need
>> the soon-to-be-deprecated daemonize(). It is the only caller of
>> thread_enter() which actually does the call.
>>
>> Note:
>> - we are going to remove the sigdelset(blocked) code from
>> allow_signal(), this means that without this patch
>> thread_enter() can't work after that. Not to mention
>> daemonize() should be deprecated.
>>
>> - as a side effect, this patch changes ->comm. Hopefully
>> this is fine, and padapter->pnetdev->name probably makes
>> more sense anyway.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov<oleg@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo<tj@kernel.org>
Acked-and-tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>


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