Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:02:29 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown
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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?  Takashi,
still object to the objections?

Should I just take them and let you two continue to argue?  :)

confused,

greg k-h
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