From 134c99e907ef2572cdaa148c191984b95d671981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:04:40 -0700 Subject: [ARM] ecard: convert to use the kthread API This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use kthread_run not a kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c') diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c index 6eb80acea37..869de6d3ad5 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -263,8 +264,6 @@ static int ecard_init_mm(void) static int ecard_task(void * unused) { - daemonize("kecardd"); - /* * Allocate a mm. We're not a lazy-TLB kernel task since we need * to set page table entries where the user space would be. Note @@ -1059,13 +1058,14 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type) */ static int __init ecard_init(void) { - int slot, irqhw, ret; + struct task_struct *task; + int slot, irqhw; - ret = kernel_thread(ecard_task, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); - if (ret < 0) { + task = kthread_run(ecard_task, NULL, "kecardd"); + if (IS_ERR(task)) { printk(KERN_ERR "Ecard: unable to create kernel thread: %d\n", - ret); - return ret; + PTR_ERR(task)); + return PTR_ERR(task); } printk("Probing expansion cards\n"); -- cgit v1.2.3