From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932244AbWAVJPA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:15:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932245AbWAVJPA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:15:00 -0500 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.13]:15764 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932244AbWAVJO7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:14:59 -0500 From: Ingo Oeser To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPW2100 fails to load firmware when booting on battery Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:14:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Olaf Hering , Manuel Estrada Sainz References: <20060121201848.GA19221@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060121201848.GA19221@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1566371.6shmIeInq0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601221014.52422.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1566371.6shmIeInq0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 21 January 2006 21:18, Olaf Hering wrote: > We carry this patch around since a while. Is it safe to increase the > timeout also in mainline? >=20 > References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D74526 >=20 > IPW2100 fails to load firmware when booting on battery; increasing the > timeout solves the problem. =20 Not needed, can be adjusted from user space, once /sys is mounted. echo -n 30 >/sys/class/firmware/timeout The firmware class driver just provides a sane default, nothing else. If this becomes a very common case (many drivers having big firmware and userspace needs a lot of time providing it), your patch should go in. But then the _default_ is wrong for many users. Regards Ingo Oeser --nextPart1566371.6shmIeInq0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD000MU56oYWuOrkARAnkSAJ9wR2khpyal6KZAgu0RQejeAeHbBQCcC3dq oi3LYwvMOFMw8+icZ5/0YMk= =Bq5k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1566371.6shmIeInq0--