Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2013 08:42:16 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown |
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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?
I'll get to these after 3.10-rc1 is out, thanks.
greg k-h
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