The patch titled
kthread: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kthread-drivers-base-firmware_classc.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: kthread: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Replace kernel_thread() call in drivers/base/firmware_class.c with
kthread_create() since kernel_thread() is deprecated in drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx)
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/base/firmware_class.c~kthread-drivers-base-firmware_classc drivers/base/firmware_class.c
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c~kthread-drivers-base-firmware_classc
+++ a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include "base.h"
@@ -511,7 +512,6 @@ request_firmware_work_func(void *arg)
WARN_ON(1);
return 0;
}
- daemonize("%s/%s", "firmware", fw_work->name);
ret = _request_firmware(&fw, fw_work->name, fw_work->device,
fw_work->uevent);
if (ret < 0)
@@ -546,9 +546,9 @@ request_firmware_nowait(
const char *name, struct device *device, void *context,
void (*cont)(const struct firmware *fw, void *context))
{
+ struct task_struct *task;
struct firmware_work *fw_work = kmalloc(sizeof (struct firmware_work),
GFP_ATOMIC);
- int ret;
if (!fw_work)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -566,14 +566,14 @@ request_firmware_nowait(
.uevent = uevent,
};
- ret = kernel_thread(request_firmware_work_func, fw_work,
- CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES);
+ task = kthread_run(request_firmware_work_func, fw_work,
+ "firmware/%s", name);
- if (ret < 0) {
+ if (IS_ERR(task)) {
fw_work->cont(NULL, fw_work->context);
module_put(fw_work->module);
kfree(fw_work);
- return ret;
+ return PTR_ERR(task);
}
return 0;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx are
kthread-airoc.patch
kthread-airoc-race-fix.patch
kthread-drivers-base-firmware_classc.patch
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