On Monday 28 May 2007 5:06 am, Kay Sievers wrote: > Well, 10 seconds are just to short for userspace to react on some > setups, from tiny boxes which are busy, to 512 CPU boxes enumerating > thousands of devices, all had problems here. Any timeout for a > firmware-request is just a broken concept, the request should wait > forever, to be fulfilled or canceled from userspace when it's ready.
If it's spawning a new usermode helper process, then figuring out when to give up and exit is that process's job. If it _can't_ exec usermode helper, then that should fail immediately. Where does the timeout come in? Rob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
