From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: tom.leiming@gmail.com
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core : fix request_firmware_nowait
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:10:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090522161016.36ef6f15@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243004787-5362-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
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 ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-22 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-22 15:06 tom.leiming
2009-05-22 15:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-05-22 15:26 ` Ming Lei
2009-05-28 20:14 ` Greg KH
2009-05-29 1:24 ` Ming Lei
2009-05-29 1:43 ` Greg KH
2009-05-29 3:33 ` Ming Lei
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