Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 May 2013 17:48:01 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown |
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At Wed, 8 May 2013 08:42:16 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:56:34AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this is a series of patches for the issue we faced in the firmware > > loader code during debugging the problem with dell_rbu driver with > > 3.9 kernel. > > > > The original problem was that the shutdown gets stuck when DELL BIOS > > update is performed. This turned out to be a problem in the firmware > > loader. Although the reason of dell_rbu driver breakage is still > > unclear, we should fix the firmware loader side, at least, not to > > stall during shutdown. > > This is the second time this has been sent, right? Any differences from > the first set?
Ah, sorry, you received it already.
I noticed that the patches via git-send-email weren't sent out properly to some places (like LKML) because of my bad setup of email (totally forgotten after the fresh installation), so I resent them again yesterday.
I should have mentioned it in the cover page. Sorry for confusion.
> I'll get to these after 3.10-rc1 is out, thanks.
OK, thanks!
Takashi
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