Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:29:28 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems. |
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Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> wrote: > > Please apply the following patches.
Please, send just one patch per email, each one having its own changelog info. There's just no way anyone's patch import tools can handle a single changelog and multiple attachments. It is painful.
> - request_firmware_own-workqueue.diff: > - In it's current form request_firmware_async() sleeps way too > long on the system's shared workqueue, which makes it > unresponsive until the firmware load finishes, gets canceled > or times out.
Does this mean that we have another gaggle of kernel threads for all the time the system is up?
It might be better to create a custom kernel thread on-demand, or kill off the workqueue when its job has completed.
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