From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@zip.com.au, Jose Orlando Pereira <jop@di.uminho.pt>,
J.E.J.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module.
Date: 02 Jan 2003 20:08:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1041534508.2074.32.camel@gamecube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1041527666.16046.18.camel@pegasus.local>
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:14, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> for the bt3c_cs driver I need to run a user space program that downloads
> the firmware into the card and the kernel part have to wait until this
> program has finished. So what is the best way to do this now?
We all seem to have the same problem 8-)
Rusty's new proposal with the wait argument seems to solve our problem,
except that it would be nice if there was a way to retrieve the exit
status of the user mode helper program.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 9:36 [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module Rusty Russell
2003-01-02 17:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2003-01-02 19:08 ` Thomas Sailer [this message]
2003-01-03 5:08 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-03 6:21 ` Brad Hards
2003-01-03 7:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-03 7:36 ` Andrew Morton
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