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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-04-26 00:04:40 -0700
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2007-05-03 14:16:56 +0100
commit134c99e907ef2572cdaa148c191984b95d671981 (patch)
tree330f39bb2fc581dd78388f5a3105915ddee5c7ce /arch
parent73b6a2be8b29b2067aa3c0f1d6433b6148d88705 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c
index 6eb80acea379..869de6d3ad53 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");