Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support

2016-09-23 Thread Herbert, Marc
On 06/09/2016 16:04, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > They claim that without it there is the race between /lib/firmware > being ready and driver asking for the firmware. Hope it's understood by now. > I was told there were quite a bit of out-of-tree hacks to address > this without using the usermode h

Re: [RFC] fs: add userspace critical mounts event support

2016-09-23 Thread Herbert, Marc
On 03/09/2016 11:10, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I was thinking if we kernel could post > "conditions" (maybe simple stings) that it waits for, and userspace > could unlock these "conditions". One of them might be "firmware > available". On idea offered by Josh Triplett that seems to overlap with thi