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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:38:19 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
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Subject: Re: kernel thread exit race
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:22:51PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> what is the politically correct way to exit from a kernel thread daemon
> without module unload races?

You need to use the completion stuff (see include/linux/completion.h)
Specifically complete_and_exit(), which is in include/linux/kernel.h
(for some weird reason).

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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