Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:29:53 +0200
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] firmware: fix fallback mechanism by ignoring SIGCHLD
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:14:42PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:20:13PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Martin reported an issue with Android where if sysfs is used to trigger a sync
> > fw load which *relies* on the fallback mechanism and a background job completes
> > while the trigger is ongoing in the foreground it will immediately fail the fw
> > request.  The issue can be observed in this simple test script using the
> > test_firmware driver:
> 
> Please respin this with the swait code removed.

Sure thing.

  Luis