From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 08:42:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130508154216.GA24838@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367996197-32748-1-git-send-email-tiwai@suse.de>
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:56:34AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a series of patches for the issue we faced in the firmware
> loader code during debugging the problem with dell_rbu driver with
> 3.9 kernel.
>
> The original problem was that the shutdown gets stuck when DELL BIOS
> update is performed. This turned out to be a problem in the firmware
> loader. Although the reason of dell_rbu driver breakage is still
> unclear, we should fix the firmware loader side, at least, not to
> stall during shutdown.
This is the second time this has been sent, right? Any differences from
the first set?
I'll get to these after 3.10-rc1 is out, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-08 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-08 6:56 [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 6:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] firmware: Avoid superfluous usermodehelper lock Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 15:52 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-08 16:21 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 16:37 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 17:51 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-09 1:25 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-09 7:31 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-09 8:43 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-09 17:04 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-10 1:25 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-10 9:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-11 13:01 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-12 7:20 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-12 13:32 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-13 14:48 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-12 13:59 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-13 15:04 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 6:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 15:56 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-08 16:15 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-09 1:19 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-09 7:34 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 6:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 15:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-05-08 15:48 ` [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 15:59 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-08 16:07 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-08 16:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-08 18:46 ` Kay Sievers
2013-05-09 7:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-05-21 17:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-05-22 1:21 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-22 16:25 ` Takashi Iwai
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