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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-04-26 00:04:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2007-05-03 14:16:56 +0100 |
| commit | 134c99e907ef2572cdaa148c191984b95d671981 (patch) | |
| tree | 330f39bb2fc581dd78388f5a3105915ddee5c7ce | |
| parent | 73b6a2be8b29b2067aa3c0f1d6433b6148d88705 (diff) | |
[ARM] ecard: convert to use the kthread API
This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use kthread_run not a
kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code
slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c index 6eb80acea37..869de6d3ad5 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> +#include <linux/kthread.h> #include <asm/dma.h> #include <asm/ecard.h> @@ -263,8 +264,6 @@ static int ecard_init_mm(void) static int ecard_task(void * unused) { - daemonize("kecardd"); - /* * Allocate a mm. We're not a lazy-TLB kernel task since we need * to set page table entries where the user space would be. Note @@ -1059,13 +1058,14 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type) */ static int __init ecard_init(void) { - int slot, irqhw, ret; + struct task_struct *task; + int slot, irqhw; - ret = kernel_thread(ecard_task, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); - if (ret < 0) { + task = kthread_run(ecard_task, NULL, "kecardd"); + if (IS_ERR(task)) { printk(KERN_ERR "Ecard: unable to create kernel thread: %d\n", - ret); - return ret; + PTR_ERR(task)); + return PTR_ERR(task); } printk("Probing expansion cards\n"); |