Re: [PATCH v2] firmware: fix sending -ERESTARTSYS due to signal on fallback

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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:28:38AM +0200, Fuzzey, Martin wrote:
> 1) Android init calls write() on the sysfs file
> 2) The sysfs .store() callback registered by a driver is called
> 3) The driver calls request_firmware()
> 4) request_firmware() sends the firmware load request to userspace and
> calls wait_for_completion_interruptible()

Martin, just for completeness on documenting on the commit log of the next
swait proposed fix for this -- what signal did the process get from which you
note the child dies below ? Exactly what in Android sent this signal ?

> 5) A child dies and raises SIGCHLD
> 6) wait_for_completion_interruptible() returns -ERESTARTSYS due to the signal

  Luis



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