On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:09:23 -0500
Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 08:55 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > There's a general push to convert kernel threads to use the (much
> > cleaner) kthread API. This patch converts the NFSv4 callback kernel
> > thread to the kthread API. In addition to being generally cleaner
> > this also removes the dependency on signals when shutting down the
> > thread.
> > 
> > Note that this patch depends on the recent patches to svc_recv() to
> > make it check kthread_should_stop() periodically. Those patches are
> > in Bruce's tree at the moment and are slated for 2.6.26 along with
> > the lockd conversion, so this conversion is probably also
> > appropriate for 2.6.26.
> 
> Since this only touches the callback server, can't we just ask Bruce
> to pick up this patch and merge it together with the others?
> 

Sounds reasonable to me.

-- 
Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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