[PATCH] NFS: convert nfs4 callback thread to kthread API

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:09:23AM -0500, Trond Myklebust 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?

Yep.  Can I take that as an ACK from you, or do you still need to read
it over?

--b.