Re: [PATCH] IPW2100 fails to load firmware when booting on battery

[Ingo Oeser]

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?
> 
> References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74526
> 
> IPW2100 fails to load firmware when booting on battery; increasing the
> timeout solves the problem.
 
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

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