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SubjectRe: [PATCH] firmware loader: don't cancel _nowait requests when helper is not yet available
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:30:24PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> This patch fixes a regression which was introduced by:
> "PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen"
>
> request_firmware_nowait does not stall in any system resume paths.
> Therefore, I think it is perfectly save to use request_firmware_nowait
> from at least the ->complete() callback.

Is there code somewhere in the kernel that wants to do this? Has commit
a144c6a broken it somehow that this fix would resolve it?

>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> ---
> drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> index 6c9387d..017e020 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p,
>
> read_lock_usermodehelper();
>
> - if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled())) {
> + if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled() && !(nowait && uevent))) {

What does uevent have to do with things here?

greg k-h


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