Re: [PATCH 2/3] kmod: Add up-to-date explanations on the purpose of each asynchronous levels

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon,  6 Jul 2015 17:33:40 +0200 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There seem to be quite some confusions on the comments, likely due to
> changes that came after them.
> 
> Now since it's very non obvious why we have 3 levels of asynchronous
> code to implement usermodehelpers, it's important to comment in detail
> the reason of this layout.

There are still a few references to keventd in there.  One of them is
simply wrong: "runs as a child of keventd".  The userspace code is
actually a child of the khelper thread, yes?

I guess we should remove all kernel references to "keventd".  It got
renamed to "kworker".
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