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Commit 134c99e9 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Russell King
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[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: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent 73b6a2be

arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c

+7 −7
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -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");