Re: [PATCH 1/4] firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed Jan 30 2013 - 05:53:21 EST


At Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:50:05 +0800,
Ming Lei wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > But it's supposed to be cached, no?
>
> Generally it will be cached, but some crazy devices might come as new
> device during resume, so we still need to handle the situation.

In that case, shouldn't we simply return an error instead of
usermodehelper lock (at least for direct loading)?


Takashi
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