Re: [PATCH] driver core : fix request_firmware_nowait

Alan Cox
2009-05-22T15:09:20Z

On Fri, 22 May 2009 23:06:27 +0800
tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:

> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
>
> request_firmware_nowait declares it can be called in non-sleep contexts,
> but kthead_run which is called by request_firmware_nowait may sleep.

Does anyone actually need to call it in a non-sleeping context or can the
documentation simply be fixed instead to avoid all the extra complexity ?