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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] firmware: fix sending -ERESTARTSYS due to signal on fallback
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> What's wrong with saying that the only way to interrupt firmware
> loading is to kill the process? So ctrl-c will no longer interrupt
> it, but I do not think that ease of aborting firmware update is
> primary goal here. I consider simple is good here.

Agreed 100%. The user process did not ask for firmware load, it asked
for an I/O operation. Semantically it should appear as if someone else
did the firmware load and it just had to wait for it to happen.

Alan

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