Re: [PATCH 0/4] firmware: fix fallback mechanism by ignoring SIGCHLD

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 13:30:10 EST


On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:14:42PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:20:13PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Martin reported an issue with Android where if sysfs is used to trigger a sync
> > fw load which *relies* on the fallback mechanism and a background job completes
> > while the trigger is ongoing in the foreground it will immediately fail the fw
> > request. The issue can be observed in this simple test script using the
> > test_firmware driver:
>
> Please respin this with the swait code removed.

Sure thing.

Luis