Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 May 2013 00:07:17 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown | From | Ming Lei <> |
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Hi Takashi,
Sorry for not CC list.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 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
Sorry, from these patchset, I can't see why it is a problem in firmware.
> unclear, we should fix the firmware loader side, at least, not to > stall during shutdown.
Firstly you need to describe what/why is the stall? In fact, firmware loading can't stall forever and it will timeout, but the current 60sec timeout might be too long.
Thanks, -- Ming Lei
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