[PATCH] kthread: airo.c
The airo driver is currently caching a pid for later use, but with the
implementation of containers, pids themselves do not uniquely identify a
task. The driver is also using kernel_thread() which is deprecated in
drivers.
This patch essentially replaces the kernel_thread() with kthread_create().
It also stores the task_struct of the airo_thread rather than its pid.
Since this introduces a second task_struct in struct airo_info, the patch
renames airo_info.task to airo_info.list_bss_task.
As an extension of these changes, the patch further:
- replaces kill_proc() with kthread_stop()
- replaces signal_pending() with kthread_should_stop()
- removes thread completion synchronisation which is handled by
kthread_stop().
[akpm@osdl.org: fix races]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Javier Achirica <achirica@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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