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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-05-08 00:30:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-08 11:15:11 -0700 |
| commit | db9c02fa8bd50eb104781a9f78cae923d8da1e74 (patch) | |
| tree | 33d1433549bcc6a38de624dfa5220a7523e60c16 /drivers/pnp | |
| parent | 1bd0cf1fc78e59e1d2b4e44348a85d39b983c80d (diff) | |
| download | linux-db9c02fa8bd50eb104781a9f78cae923d8da1e74.tar.gz | |
pnpbios: convert to use the kthread API
This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start with ktrhead_run not kernel_thread and deamonize. Doing this makes the code a little simpler and easier to maintain. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/pnp')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c index 95738dbd5d45..b71aff21b3fc 100644 --- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c +++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ #include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/acpi.h> #include <linux/freezer.h> +#include <linux/kthread.h> #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/desc.h> @@ -159,9 +160,7 @@ static int pnp_dock_thread(void * unused) { static struct pnp_docking_station_info now; int docked = -1, d = 0; - daemonize("kpnpbiosd"); - allow_signal(SIGKILL); - while(!unloading && !signal_pending(current)) + while (!unloading) { int status; @@ -170,11 +169,8 @@ static int pnp_dock_thread(void * unused) */ msleep_interruptible(2000); - if(signal_pending(current)) { - if (try_to_freeze()) - continue; - break; - } + if (try_to_freeze()) + continue; status = pnp_bios_dock_station_info(&now); @@ -581,6 +577,7 @@ subsys_initcall(pnpbios_init); static int __init pnpbios_thread_init(void) { + struct task_struct *task; #if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE) if (check_legacy_ioport(PNPBIOS_BASE)) return 0; @@ -589,7 +586,8 @@ static int __init pnpbios_thread_init(void) return 0; #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG init_completion(&unload_sem); - if (kernel_thread(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) > 0) + task = kthread_run(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, "kpnpbiosd"); + if (!IS_ERR(task)) unloading = 0; #endif return 0; |