[PATCH 0/6 v4] staging: brcm80211: remove kernel_thread()

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Oct 11 22:26:47 PDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 06:24:15PM -0700, Nohee Ko wrote:
> I just found this change has fatal problem. Due to this change there
> is no way to kill the process which is waiting for the SIGTERM event
> with down_interruptible().
> 
> If you have no objection, I will revert it to kernel_thread and send the patch.
> Please let me know.

How about fixing the problem and not going back to kernel_thread, as
that is a depreciated interface and could go away any release now.

thanks,


greg k-h


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