On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> That's sick. Do we have to? The PCMCIA coded obviously wants an async
> call_usermodehelper() or it wouldn't have been using schedule_task()
> for it in the first place, would it? Can't we pass an 'int async' arg to
> call_usermodehelper() instead of doing it this way?
All user-mode-helpers are async as of this patch.
The reason for the serialization is that we need to wait until the exec()
has taken place - so that the arguments that the caller set up haven't
disappeared from the caller stack. The actual execution is asynchronous
anyway.
Linus
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