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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:08:13 -0700
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, smp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Releasing interrupts?
Message-ID:  <20001005160813.R58256@canonware.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010051918.NAA01346@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:18:42PM -0600
References:  <XFMail.001005121431.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200010051918.NAA01346@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:18:42PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <XFMail.001005121431.jhb@FreeBSD.org> John Baldwin writes:
> : You may be able to orchestrate a way to have your thread call kthread_exit(),
> : which would work.  The person to bug for a kthread_cancel() is Peter though.
> : :)
> 
> OK.  kthread_exit() is likely sufficient for my needs in NEWCARD.  I
> can queue a poison pill as easily as I can queue an INSERT or REMOVED
> event :-)

Good to hear it.  With regard to thread cancellation, it's another example
of a feature that, if used, usually indicates poor program design, so I
hope that we don't find a need for kthread_cancel().

Jason


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