Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:03:46 -0300 | From | "Julio Auto" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] loop.c: kernel_thread() retval check - 2.6.17.9 |
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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,
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