Re: [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems.

[Andrew Morton]

Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Please apply the following patches.

Please, send just one patch per email, each one having its own changelog
info.  There's just no way anyone's patch import tools can handle a single
changelog and multiple attachments.  It is painful.

>   - request_firmware_own-workqueue.diff:
>  	-  In it's current form request_firmware_async() sleeps way too
>  	   long on the system's shared workqueue, which makes it
>  	   unresponsive until the firmware load finishes, gets canceled
>  	   or times out.

Does this mean that we have another gaggle of kernel threads for all the
time the system is up?

It might be better to create a custom kernel thread on-demand, or kill off
the workqueue when its job has completed.

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