Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread

[Rusty Russell]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather
> than the deprecated kernel_threads.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>

kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly
special, low-level interface.

Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code
than it removed.

Rusty.
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