Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754393Ab3EVBV2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:28 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:41922 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753519Ab3EVBV1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130521170229.GB20464@kroah.com> References: <1367996197-32748-1-git-send-email-tiwai@suse.de> <20130521170229.GB20464@kroah.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:21:24 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown From: Ming Lei To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Takashi Iwai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 28 On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/