Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (adt7470) No need for additional synchronization on kthread_stop()

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sun Sep 18 2016 - 13:10:30 EST


On 09/16/2016 01:07 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

The kthread_stop() waits for the thread to exit. There is no need for an
additional synchronization needed to join on the kthread.

The completation was added by 89fac11cb3e7 ("adt7470: make automatic fan
control really work").

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter

---
drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
index f5da39a..f5d618c 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ struct adt7470_data {
u8 pwm_auto_temp[ADT7470_PWM_COUNT];

struct task_struct *auto_update;
- struct completion auto_update_stop;
unsigned int auto_update_interval;
};

@@ -271,7 +270,6 @@ static int adt7470_update_thread(void *p)
msleep_interruptible(data->auto_update_interval);
}

- complete_all(&data->auto_update_stop);
return 0;
}

@@ -1256,7 +1254,6 @@ static int adt7470_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
if (IS_ERR(hwmon_dev))
return PTR_ERR(hwmon_dev);

- init_completion(&data->auto_update_stop);
data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client, "%s",
dev_name(hwmon_dev));
if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update)) {
@@ -1271,7 +1268,6 @@ static int adt7470_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
struct adt7470_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client);

kthread_stop(data->auto_update);
- wait_for_completion(&data->auto_update_stop);
return 0;
}