Can you add a little bit of context what all this is about, please? On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +0100, Cedric Le Goater wrote: > > I've added Christoph to Cc: for his expertise in kthread conversions. > > > ... > > > > You have a problem with the pid, right? Well, that is easily > > cured in itself. I'll spin a patch for it a bit later, unless > > someone else gets there first. And if you can confirm that kthread_stop > > can be used in this situation (i.e. thread can spontaneously return > > without kthread_stop) then I'm happy to convert everyone over to checking > > kthread_should_stop.