Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 07:27:13PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Btw. Perhaps we should kill CLONE_KERNEL? And note that the only
> user is eeh_thread_launcher().
> 
> The problem is, CLONE_KERNEL looks as "use me if you want to create
> a kernel thread". But CLONE_SIGHAND means the kernel thread should
> not play with signals, and this is not obvious.

I guess it predates kthread().  There's no reason to use
kernel_thread() directly outside of a few core places, so removing it
sounds like a pretty good idea.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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