Commit 134c99e9 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Russell King

[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
...@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ ...@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <asm/dma.h> #include <asm/dma.h>
#include <asm/ecard.h> #include <asm/ecard.h>
...@@ -263,8 +264,6 @@ static int ecard_init_mm(void) ...@@ -263,8 +264,6 @@ static int ecard_init_mm(void)
static int static int
ecard_task(void * unused) ecard_task(void * unused)
{ {
daemonize("kecardd");
/* /*
* Allocate a mm. We're not a lazy-TLB kernel task since we need * 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 * to set page table entries where the user space would be. Note
...@@ -1059,13 +1058,14 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type) ...@@ -1059,13 +1058,14 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type)
*/ */
static int __init ecard_init(void) 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); task = kthread_run(ecard_task, NULL, "kecardd");
if (ret < 0) { if (IS_ERR(task)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Ecard: unable to create kernel thread: %d\n", printk(KERN_ERR "Ecard: unable to create kernel thread: %d\n",
ret); PTR_ERR(task));
return ret; return PTR_ERR(task);
} }
printk("Probing expansion cards\n"); printk("Probing expansion cards\n");
......
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