Re: [PATCH 0/3] firmware: Fix usermodehelper deadlock at shutdown

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 22 May 2013 09:21:24 +0800,
Ming Lei wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > What's the status of these?  Ming, still have objections?
> 
> I have no objections now, but Takashi need to submit v2 to fix one
> mistake which may break current firmware cache.

Sorry for the late response.  I'm going to submit the revised patches
now.


Takashi