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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> wrote:
>
> > The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue
> > being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message
> > that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that
> > happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the
> > service partition is back again.
> >
> > The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we
> > get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume
> > it when the problem clears.
> >
> > We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
> > from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
>
> Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as
> they are received. I presently have
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>
>
> I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler
> for the various trees.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


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