From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> The kthread_stop() waits for the thread to exit. There is no need for an additional synchronization needed to join on the kthread. The completation was added by 89fac11cb3e7 ("adt7470: make automatic fan control really work"). Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c index f5da39a..f5d618c 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c @@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ struct adt7470_data { u8 pwm_auto_temp[ADT7470_PWM_COUNT]; struct task_struct *auto_update; - struct completion auto_update_stop; unsigned int auto_update_interval; }; @@ -271,7 +270,6 @@ static int adt7470_update_thread(void *p) msleep_interruptible(data->auto_update_interval); } - complete_all(&data->auto_update_stop); return 0; } @@ -1256,7 +1254,6 @@ static int adt7470_probe(struct i2c_client *client, if (IS_ERR(hwmon_dev)) return PTR_ERR(hwmon_dev); - init_completion(&data->auto_update_stop); data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client, "%s", dev_name(hwmon_dev)); if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update)) { @@ -1271,7 +1268,6 @@ static int adt7470_remove(struct i2c_client *client) struct adt7470_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client); kthread_stop(data->auto_update); - wait_for_completion(&data->auto_update_stop); return 0; } -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hwmon" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html