Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: Avoid superfluous usermodehelper lock

From: Ming Lei
Date: Wed May 08 2013 - 21:25:42 EST


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In other words, the first patch is no essential part of the fix.
>> I can revisit the second patch without this one and resend if
>> preferred.
>
> FWIW, below is the revised patch.
> It's alone without the patch 1 in the previous series.

The root cause is that your user space loader doesn't follow the
current firmware loader interface.

IMO, the patch is unnecessary since we already have the timeout
abort(just need one patch to enable it for nowait api)

Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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