On Monday 28 May 2007 5:06 am, Kay Sievers wrote:
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> 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
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