commit 8eec14295e03f9dfe2be7bb75c8004a5fa867cdb
author Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Thu Feb 08 14:32:43 2007 -0300
committer Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Wed Feb 21 13:35:20 2007 -0200
tree fe5533f0d6957e456bbba4c420e9abb9a3fae358
parent 2a9f8b5d25beacd034369fca416b548cbf931561

V4L/DVB (5208): Kthread API conversion for dvb_frontend and av7110

dvb kernel_thread to kthread API port.  
It is running fine here, including module load/unload and software suspend
(which doesn't work as expected with or without this patch :).
I didn't convert the dvb_ca_en50221 as I do not have such an interface, but
if the conversion process is fine with the v4l-dvb maintainers, it should not
be a problem to send a patch for that too ...
Acked-by: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>

Signed-off-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>

drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c
index bb213d8..29ed532 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include <linux/firmware.h>
 #include <linux/crc32.h>
 #include <linux/i2c.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 
 #include <asm/system.h>
 
@@ -223,11 +224,10 @@
 
 static void av7110_arm_sync(struct av7110 *av7110)
 {
-	av7110->arm_rmmod = 1;
-	wake_up_interruptible(&av7110->arm_wait);
+	if (av7110->arm_thread)
+		kthread_stop(av7110->arm_thread);
 
-	while (av7110->arm_thread)
-		msleep(1);
+	av7110->arm_thread = NULL;
 }
 
 static int arm_thread(void *data)
@@ -238,17 +238,11 @@
 
 	dprintk(4, "%p\n",av7110);
 
-	lock_kernel();
-	daemonize("arm_mon");
-	sigfillset(&current->blocked);
-	unlock_kernel();
-
-	av7110->arm_thread = current;
-
 	for (;;) {
 		timeout = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(av7110->arm_wait,
-							   av7110->arm_rmmod, 5 * HZ);
-		if (-ERESTARTSYS == timeout || av7110->arm_rmmod) {
+			kthread_should_stop(), 5 * HZ);
+
+		if (-ERESTARTSYS == timeout || kthread_should_stop()) {
 			/* got signal or told to quit*/
 			break;
 		}
@@ -276,7 +270,6 @@
 		av7110->arm_errors = 0;
 	}
 
-	av7110->arm_thread = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -2338,6 +2331,7 @@
 	const int length = TS_WIDTH * TS_HEIGHT;
 	struct pci_dev *pdev = dev->pci;
 	struct av7110 *av7110;
+	struct task_struct *thread;
 	int ret, count = 0;
 
 	dprintk(4, "dev: %p\n", dev);
@@ -2622,9 +2616,12 @@
 		printk ("dvb-ttpci: Warning, firmware version 0x%04x is too old. "
 			"System might be unstable!\n", FW_VERSION(av7110->arm_app));
 
-	ret = kernel_thread(arm_thread, (void *) av7110, 0);
-	if (ret < 0)
+	thread = kthread_run(arm_thread, (void *) av7110, "arm_mon");
+	if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(thread);
 		goto err_stop_arm_9;
+	}
+	av7110->arm_thread = thread;
 
 	/* set initial volume in mixer struct */
 	av7110->mixer.volume_left  = volume;