On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:18:49PM -0700, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Andrew Hi > > I'm picking on you because I don't have any one else to pick on. > The 3 first patches here, are just good for today. Please see if > you would like to take them? or tell me who should take them? > > The 4th patch is an RFC, which got me looking into this. > > My motivation is that I added yet another Kernel dependency on the > call_usermodehelper() function and am not completely happy with the > error case of having the user-mode program stuck forever. In such > case I would like the Kernel part to timeout and properly error recover > and clean up. So therefor the proposed 4th patch. What is this new use of call_usermodhelper that you are doing this work for? Ideally, you never want to make this call, as it's slow and messy, as you have found out. Is there an in-kernel user that you have recently added? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
