linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: wake all waiters

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Message-ID: <20170630163209.GF3954@linux-80c1.suse>
Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0700
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        DanielWagnerwagi@...om.org, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        "Li, Yi" <yi1.li@...ux.intel.com>,
        "AKASHI, Takahiro" <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: wake all waiters

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

>And do we want to make it even more *special-use* by wrapping it with
>#ifndef MODULE as suggested by Matthew Wilcox ?

Not if we want to add any sort of module that tests swait vs wait.

Thanks,
Davidlohr