Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: don't cancel _nowait requests when helper is not yet available

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday, March 15, 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > On 03/13/12 13:14, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > All of those use cases are in fact of the "wait for user space to be thawed
> > > and then load the firmware" type, which I believe may be handled without
> > > changing that code.
> > >
> > > Why don't you make your kthread freezable, for one example?
> > >
> > > Why don't you use a freezable workqueue instead?
> > >
> > 
> > If we put it on the freezable workqueue or make it a freezable thread
> > will it work?
> 
> That depends on what exactly you want to achieve, which isn't entirely clear
> to me at this point.
> 
> > In my scenario a wakeup interrupt comes in that wakes us up from
> > suspend. Within that wakeup handler a work item is scheduled to the
> > freezable workqueue. That work item then calls request_firmware().
> 
> That should work.

I would consider using suspend/resume notifiers, however.

Thanks,
Rafael