Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] firmware: fix sending -ERESTARTSYS due to signal on fallback | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:25:51 +0100 |
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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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