Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] writes:

Eric W. Biederman writes:

quoted

Well the basic problem is that for any piece of code that can be modular
we need a way to ensure all threads it has running are shutdown when we
remove the module.

The EEH code can't be modular, and wouldn't make any sense to be
modular, since it's part of the infrastructure for accessing PCI
devices.

Agreed.  However most kthread users are modular and make sense to
be so we need to design to handle modular users.

I don't think the idiom of go fire off a thread to handle something
is specific to non-modular users.

Eric