Re: [PATCH] driver core : fix request_firmware_nowait

[Ming Lei]

2009/5/22 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 22 May 2009 23:06:27 +0800
> tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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 ?
>

It seems no one calls it in a non-sleeping context now, but we can provide it
without much extra complexity, IMHO.  Also someone has complained it :

      http://marc.info/?t=124022846400003&r=1&w=2

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Lei Ming
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