On 08/12, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > +/* To be used by modules which can take over 30 seconds at probe */ Probably the comment should explain that this hack should only be used if the driver is buggy and is wating for "real fix". > +#define module_long_probe_init(initfn) \ > + static struct task_struct *__init_thread; \ > + static int _long_probe_##initfn(void *arg) \ > + { \ > + return initfn(); \ > + } \ > + static inline __init int __long_probe_##initfn(void) \ > + { \ > + __init_thread = kthread_run(_long_probe_##initfn,\ > + NULL, \ > + #initfn); \ > + if (IS_ERR(__init_thread)) \ > + return PTR_ERR(__init_thread); \ > + return 0; \ > + } \ > + module_init(__long_probe_##initfn); > +/* To be used by modules that require module_long_probe_init() */ > +#define module_long_probe_exit(exitfn) \ > + static inline void __long_probe_##exitfn(void) \ > + { \ > + exitfn(); \ > + if (__init_thread) \ > + kthread_stop(__init_thread); \ > + } \ exitfn() should be called after kthread_stop(), and only if initfn() returns 0. So it should probably do int err = kthread_stop(__init_thread); if (!err) exitfn(); But there is an additional complication, you can't use __init_thread without get_task_struct(), so __long_probe_##initfn() can't use kthread_run(). It needs kthread_create() + get_task_struct() + wakeup. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html