Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: remover8712_cmd_thread()->daemonize()

[Matt Fleming]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 20:50 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> daemonize() is only needed when a user-space task does kernel_thread().
> 
> r8712_cmd_thread() is kthread_create()'ed and thus it doesn't need
> the soon-to-be-deprecated daemonize(). It is the only caller of
> thread_enter() which actually does the call.
> 
> Note:
> 	- we are going to remove the sigdelset(blocked) code from
> 	  allow_signal(), this means that without this patch
> 	  thread_enter() can't work after that. Not to mention
> 	  daemonize() should be deprecated.
> 
> 	- as a side effect, this patch changes ->comm. Hopefully
> 	  this is fine, and padapter->pnetdev->name probably makes
> 	  more sense anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>


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