On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote: > When a system goes to reboot/shutdown, it tries to disable the > usermode helper via usermodehelper_disable(). This might be blocked > when a driver tries to load a firmware beforehand and it's stuck by > some reason.
IMO, it is better to find why the loading is stuck. Also we already provides the timeout sysfs file to help to deal with the situation. > > In this patch, the firmware class driver registers a reboot notifier > so that it can abort all pending f/w bufs. Also enable a flag for > avoiding the call of usermodehelper after the reboot/shutdown starts. With this patch, maybe we only hide the real problem. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
