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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:06:00 +0100 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: don't cancel _nowait requests when helper is not yet available On Saturday, March 17, 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote: > > - if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled())) { > > + if (is_sleep_task()) { > > dev_err(device, "firmware: %s will not be loaded\n", name); > > Stop these idiotic games already! > > It's very simple: you cannot load firmware while the system is not > readt. Your moronic "let's change the test to something else" is > entirely and utterly misguided and totally misses the point. > > It's not about sleeping, and it's not about anything even *remotely* > about that. Stop the idiocy already. > > How hard is it to understand? How many times do people have to tell you? > > That warning is very much valid during bootup, and that warning has > been *seen* during bootup. For example, try to compile in most > wireless drivers as non-modular, and that warning *has* to trigger. > > Rafael, please consider everything along these *IDIOTIC* lines > completely NAK'ed. I will. Thanks, Rafael -- 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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