Re: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Thu 2007-05-24 15:10:29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > 
> > > Equally arguably, we should just have a "resume_late()" call that can be 
> > > used to do this after everything is up and running.
> > 
> > Yes, we can do that. But userland will see devices "not there" for a
> > few seconds after boot.
> 
> No they won't.
> 
> Why the HELL cannot you realize that kernel threads are different?

Ugh? We are talking about request_firmware() here, right? That's
calling userland helper to load the firmware...? Looks like USER
thread to me.
								Pavel


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