Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] firmware: document user mode helper lock usage

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Fri Sep 09 2016 - 18:14:53 EST


On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The lock is also used to generate warnings when a direct
> firmware load is requested too early.

I've determined the firmware cache lets us bail out of this
consideration now. If Ming agrees with the logic we don't need this
patch and you can continue as you had intended. Sorry for the trouble.

Luis