Re: [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module.

From: Thomas Sailer (sailer@scs.ch)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 14:08:28 EST


On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:14, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> for the bt3c_cs driver I need to run a user space program that downloads
> the firmware into the card and the kernel part have to wait until this
> program has finished. So what is the best way to do this now?

We all seem to have the same problem 8-)

Rusty's new proposal with the wait argument seems to solve our problem,
except that it would be nice if there was a way to retrieve the exit
status of the user mode helper program.

Tom

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