Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue
> > being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message
> > that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that
> > happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the
> > service partition is back again.
> > 
> > The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we
> > get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume
> > it when the problem clears.
> > 
> > We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
> > from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as
> they are received.   I presently have
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler
> for the various trees.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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