Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:21:59 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] firmware loader: retry _nowait requests when userhelper is not yet available |
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > The patch below (untested) goes slightly into that direction, although not as > far as to modify fw_create_instance(). It does, however, split > _request_firmware() into "prepare", "load" and "cleanup" parts and moves > the usermodehelper check along with the read-locking of umhelper_sem down > to the callers, ie. request_firmware() and request_firmware_work_func().
Looks fairly reasonable to me from a quick read-through, and the code seems to make sense.
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