| From | "Eric W. Biederman" <> | Subject | [PATCH] arm ecard: Conver to use the kthread API. | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:55:38 -0600 |
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From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use kthread_run not a kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> --- arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c index f1c0fb9..6c15f5f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> +#include <linux/kthread.h> #include <asm/dma.h> #include <asm/ecard.h> @@ -263,8 +264,6 @@ static int ecard_init_mm(void) static int ecard_task(void * unused) { - daemonize("kecardd"); - /* * Allocate a mm. We're not a lazy-TLB kernel task since we need * to set page table entries where the user space would be. Note @@ -1058,13 +1057,14 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type) */ static int __init ecard_init(void) { - int slot, irqhw, ret; + struct task_struct *task; + int slot, irqhw; - ret = kernel_thread(ecard_task, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); - if (ret < 0) { + task = kthread_run(ecard_task, NULL, "kecardd"); + if (IS_ERR(task)) { printk(KERN_ERR "Ecard: unable to create kernel thread: %d\n", - ret); - return ret; + PTR_ERR(task)); + return PTR_ERR(task); } printk("Probing expansion cards\n"); -- 1.5.0.g53756 - 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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