Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756610Ab3EVQYs (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 12:24:48 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50501 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755539Ab3EVQYr (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 12:24:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:25:07 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Ming Lei Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown In-Reply-To: References: <1367996197-32748-1-git-send-email-tiwai@suse.de> <20130521170229.GB20464@kroah.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/24.2 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1231 Lines: 33 At Wed, 22 May 2013 09:21:24 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > 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. Sorry for the late response. I'm going to submit the revised patches now. Takashi -- 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/