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

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> What's the status of these?  Ming, still have objections?

I have no objections now, but Takashi need to submit v2 to fix one
mistake which may break current firmware cache.

Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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