Hi Takashi, Sorry for not CC list.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote: > Hi, > > this is a series of patches for the issue we faced in the firmware > loader code during debugging the problem with dell_rbu driver with > 3.9 kernel. > > The original problem was that the shutdown gets stuck when DELL BIOS > update is performed. This turned out to be a problem in the firmware > loader. Although the reason of dell_rbu driver breakage is still Sorry, from these patchset, I can't see why it is a problem in firmware. > unclear, we should fix the firmware loader side, at least, not to > stall during shutdown. Firstly you need to describe what/why is the stall? In fact, firmware loading can't stall forever and it will timeout, but the current 60sec timeout might be too long. 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/
