Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] firmware loader: introduce cache/uncache firmware

From: Ming Lei
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 08:50:21 EST


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is likely unwise. You'd better introduce a special flag for kernel threads
> that should be thawed only after user space will have been thawed.

IMO, it is not necessary to introduce one extra flag for the purpose since

- usermodehelper flag should be set/get as enabled after user space
tasks have been waken up

- no harm to thaw all user space tasks before thawing all kernel threads
(there isn't any dependency about the thawing order)

Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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