I applied and tested the new patches in the mm tree and it works fine
for me.
Thanks
-Brian
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Brian King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>>Ok, you've convinced me of the mess that would cause. So what should we
>>>
>> >> do to help fix this? Serialize call_usermodehelper()?
>> >
>> >
>> > May as well bring back call_usermodehelper_async() I guess.
>> >
>> >
>> > There are two patches here, and they are totally untested...
>>
>> I loaded the patches on my ppc64 box and they worked fine after I fixed a compile
>> bug. The attached patch fixes the compile bug and changes the call_usermodehelper
>> call in kset_hotplug to call_usermodehelper_async.
>
>
> yup, thanks. I've changed the patch in my tree so that we always perform
> the fully-async operation if call_usermodehelper() is passed "wait=0". It
> gets the new code some more testing and keeps the kernel API simpler.
>
>
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Brian King
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