Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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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