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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:59:08 +0800 From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/13] driver core: firmware loader: fix device lifetime On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> wrote: >> Also this patch holds the reference cound of @device before > > count Good catch, will fix it in -v1. >> - * it is not possible to sleep for long time. It can't be called >> - * in atomic contexts. >> + * it is not possible to sleep for long time. > > Let's state it explicitly: > > "it is not allowed to sleep for it is called in atomic context." Looks you understand it incorrectly, the sentence is below * Asynchronous variant of request_firmware() for user contexts where * it is not possible to sleep for long time. and maybe it should be changed to below: * Asynchronous variant of request_firmware() for user contexts where * it is not possible to sleep for long time or can't sleep at all. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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