Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend

Rob Landley
2007-05-29T21:19:18Z

On Monday 28 May 2007 5:06 am, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Well, 10 seconds are just to short for userspace to react on some
> setups, from tiny boxes which are busy, to 512 CPU boxes enumerating
> thousands of devices, all had problems here. Any timeout for a
> firmware-request is just a broken concept, the request should wait
> forever, to be fulfilled or canceled from userspace when it's ready.

If it's spawning a new usermode helper process, then figuring out when to give
up and exit is that process's job. If it _can't_ exec usermode helper, then
that should fail immediately.

Where does the timeout come in?

Rob