[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove kernel/kthread.c:kthread_stop_sem()

[Adrian Bunk]

This patch moves the otherwise unused kthread_stop_sem() into 
kthread_stop().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>

---

This patch was already sent on:
- 29 Jun 2006

 include/linux/kthread.h |   12 ------------
 kernel/kthread.c        |   14 ++------------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.17-mm4-full/include/linux/kthread.h.old	2006-06-29 19:07:40.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm4-full/include/linux/kthread.h	2006-06-29 19:07:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 
 void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu);
 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k);
-int kthread_stop_sem(struct task_struct *k, struct semaphore *s);
 int kthread_should_stop(void);
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_KTHREAD_H */
--- linux-2.6.17-mm4-full/kernel/kthread.c.old	2006-06-29 19:08:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm4-full/kernel/kthread.c	2006-06-29 19:08:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -216,23 +216,6 @@
  */
 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
 {
-	return kthread_stop_sem(k, NULL);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
-
-/**
- * kthread_stop_sem - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
- * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
- * @s: semaphore that @k waits on while idle.
- *
- * Does essentially the same thing as kthread_stop() above, but wakes
- * @k by calling up(@s).
- *
- * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
- * was never called.
- */
-int kthread_stop_sem(struct task_struct *k, struct semaphore *s)
-{
 	int ret;
 
 	mutex_lock(&kthread_stop_lock);
@@ -246,10 +229,7 @@
 
 	/* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
 	kthread_stop_info.k = k;
-	if (s)
-		up(s);
-	else
-		wake_up_process(k);
+	wake_up_process(k);
 	put_task_struct(k);
 
 	/* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
@@ -260,7 +240,7 @@
 
 	return ret;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop_sem);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
 
 static __init int helper_init(void)
 {
-
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