[PATCH] i386 voyager: Convert the monitor thread to use the kthread API

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Thu Apr 19 2007 - 03:00:53 EST


From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> - unquoted

This patch just trivially replaces kernel_thread and daemonize
with a single call to kthread_run.

CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c b/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
index ebfd913..ee23d9b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/kmod.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
#include <asm/voyager.h>
#include <asm/vic.h>
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ static __u8 set_timeout = 0;
static int __init
voyager_thread_start(void)
{
- if(kernel_thread(thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) < 0) {
+ if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(thread, NULL, "%s", THREAD_NAME))) {
/* This is serious, but not fatal */
printk(KERN_ERR "Voyager: Failed to create system monitor thread!!!\n");
return 1;
@@ -122,8 +123,6 @@ thread(void *unused)

kvoyagerd_running = 1;

- daemonize(THREAD_NAME);
-
set_timeout = 0;

init_timer(&wakeup_timer);
--
1.5.0.g53756

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