Re: [PATCH] ipv4/ipvs: Convert to kthread API

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:57AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Modify startup of ipvs sync threads to use kthread_run
> instead of a weird combination of calling kernel_thread
> to start a fork_sync_thread whose hole purpose in life was
> to call kernel_thread again starting the actually sync thread
> which called daemonize.
> 
> To use kthread_run I had to move the name calcuation from
> sync_thread into start_sync_thread resulting in a small
> amount of code motion.
> 
> The result is simpler and more maintainable piece of code.

Thanks Eric, I'll review this and get back to you shortly.

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