From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This patch just trivially replaces kernel_thread and daemonize with a
single call to kthread_run.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c~i386-voyager-convert-the-monitor-thread-to-use-the-kthread-api arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
--- a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c~i386-voyager-convert-the-monitor-thread-to-use-the-kthread-api
+++ a/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <asm/desc.h>
 #include <asm/voyager.h>
 #include <asm/vic.h>
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ static __u8 set_timeout = 0;
 static int __init
 voyager_thread_start(void)
 {
-	if(kernel_thread(thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) < 0) {
+	if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(thread, NULL, "%s", THREAD_NAME))) {
 		/* This is serious, but not fatal */
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Voyager: Failed to create system monitor thread!!!\n");
 		return 1;
@@ -123,8 +124,6 @@ thread(void *unused)
 
 	kvoyagerd_running = 1;
 
-	daemonize(THREAD_NAME);
-
 	set_timeout = 0;
 
 	init_timer(&wakeup_timer);
_