pnpbios: convert to use the kthread API

This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start with ktrhead_run
not kernel_thread and deamonize.  Doing this makes the code a little
simpler and easier to maintain.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
index 95738dbd5d45..b71aff21b3fc 100644
--- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/desc.h>
@@ -159,9 +160,7 @@ static int pnp_dock_thread(void * unused)
 {
         static struct pnp_docking_station_info now;
         int docked = -1, d = 0;
-        daemonize("kpnpbiosd");
-        allow_signal(SIGKILL);
-        while(!unloading && !signal_pending(current))
+        while (!unloading)
         {
                 int status;
                 
@@ -170,11 +169,8 @@ static int pnp_dock_thread(void * unused)
                  */
                 msleep_interruptible(2000);
 
-                if(signal_pending(current)) {
-                        if (try_to_freeze())
-                                continue;
-                        break;
-                }
+                if (try_to_freeze())
+                        continue;
 
                 status = pnp_bios_dock_station_info(&now);
 
@@ -581,6 +577,7 @@ subsys_initcall(pnpbios_init);
 
 static int __init pnpbios_thread_init(void)
 {
+        struct task_struct *task;
 #if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE)
         if (check_legacy_ioport(PNPBIOS_BASE))
                 return 0;
@@ -589,7 +586,8 @@ static int __init pnpbios_thread_init(void)
                 return 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
         init_completion(&unload_sem);
-        if (kernel_thread(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) > 0)
+        task = kthread_run(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, "kpnpbiosd");
+        if (!IS_ERR(task))
                 unloading = 0;
 #endif
         return 0;