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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 /drivers/base/firmware_class.c | |
| parent | c4c01684349ac0821ad8c27de9516fe493f3361d (diff) | |
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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 'drivers/base/firmware_class.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index 2d296b7f7034..242770250584 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -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( |
