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Commit 7fcab099 authored May 29, 2009 by Ming Lei Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Jun 15, 2009

driver core: fix documentation of request_firmware_nowait



request_firmware_nowait declares it can be called in non-sleep contexts,
but kthead_run called by request_firmware_nowait may sleep. So fix its
documentation and comment to make callers clear about it.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent c4c01684

Documentation/firmware_class/README

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		seconds for the whole load operation.

		- request_firmware_nowait() is also provided for convenience in
		non-user contexts.
		user contexts to request firmware asynchronously, but can't be called
		in atomic contexts.


		about in-kernel persistence:

drivers/base/firmware_class.c

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		@@ -617,8 +617,9 @@ request_firmware_work_func(void *arg)
		* @cont: function will be called asynchronously when the firmware
		* request is over.
		*
		* Asynchronous variant of request_firmware() for contexts where
		* it is not possible to sleep.
		* Asynchronous variant of request_firmware() for user contexts where
		* it is not possible to sleep for long time. It can't be called
		* in atomic contexts.
		**/
		int
		request_firmware_nowait(