Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Bluetooth: Make request workqueue freezable

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 19 May 2015 10:26:46 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> > > >  Of just have request_firmware()
> > > > actually sleep until userspace is ready. Seriously, why is
> > > > request_firmware not just sleeping for us.
> 
> It won't work.  The request_firmware call is part of the probe 
> sequence, which in turn is part of the resume sequence.  Userspace 
> doesn't start running again until the resume sequence is finished.  If 
> request_firmware waited for userspace, it would hang.

Note that the recent request_firmware() doesn't need the user-space
invocation (unless the fallback is explicitly enabled) but loads the
file directly.  And, request_firmware() for the cached data is valid
to be called in the resume path.


Takashi
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