From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] firmware loader: Introduce new API - request_firmware_abort()
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 08:15:58 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141103101558.GA11739@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414984030-13859-2-git-send-email-hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014, Kweh Hock Leong wrote:
> Note for people who use request_firmware_nowait():
> You are required to do your own synchronization after you call
> request_firmware_abort() in order to continue unloading the
> module. The example synchronization code shows below:
>
> while (THIS_MODULE && module_refcount(THIS_MODULE))
> msleep(20);
This is _so_ asking for people to get it wrong, it is not funny :-(
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-03 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-03 3:07 [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-03 3:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] firmware loader: Introduce new API - request_firmware_abort() Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-03 10:15 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2014-11-03 12:07 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-08 19:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-13 2:51 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-17 15:12 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-18 6:31 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-19 2:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 3:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-08 19:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 3:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface Kweh Hock Leong
2014-11-04 4:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-04 5:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 6:04 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-04 6:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 8:03 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-04 14:18 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-04 14:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 15:40 ` Greg KH
2014-11-04 16:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-06 12:53 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-06 16:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-10 8:31 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-10 19:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-08 13:05 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-08 15:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-27 5:06 ` Roy Franz
2015-02-27 11:35 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2014-11-03 19:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-03 21:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 21:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-03 23:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-03 23:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 0:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-04 1:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-11-04 14:07 ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-05 9:52 ` Kweh, Hock Leong
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