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Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:10:16 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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       Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core : fix request_firmware_nowait
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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 ?