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| author | Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> | 2009-05-29 11:33:19 +0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-06-15 21:30:24 -0700 |
| commit | 7fcab099795812a8a08eb3b8c8ddb35c3685045f (patch) | |
| tree | de2bd852d27ac721e6d40b85e7661d7f438119e0 /Documentation/firmware_class/README | |
| parent | c4c01684349ac0821ad8c27de9516fe493f3361d (diff) | |
| download | linux-7fcab099795812a8a08eb3b8c8ddb35c3685045f.tar.bz2 | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/firmware_class/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/firmware_class/README | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/README b/Documentation/firmware_class/README index c3480aa66ba8..7eceaff63f5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware_class/README +++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/README @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ 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: |