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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 8 May 2013 08:42:16 -0700,
Greg Kroah-Hartman 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.
> 
> This is the second time this has been sent, right?  Any differences from
> the first set?

Ah, sorry, you received it already.

I noticed that the patches via git-send-email weren't sent out
properly to some places (like LKML) because of my bad setup of email
(totally forgotten after the fresh installation), so I resent them
again yesterday.

I should have mentioned it in the cover page.  Sorry for confusion.

> I'll get to these after 3.10-rc1 is out, thanks.

OK, thanks!


Takashi