Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754396Ab3HBQFI (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 12:05:08 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f169.google.com ([209.85.128.169]:42827 "EHLO mail-ve0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754316Ab3HBQFG (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 12:05:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 09:04:44 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Slow firmware timeouts again (Re: [3.11 regression?] iwlwifi firmware takes two minutes to load) To: Johannes Berg Cc: Linux Wireless List , Intel Linux Wireless , linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1298 Lines: 45 [cc: linux-kernel, linux-hotplug, and systemd-devel. This is 3.11-rc3+] On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 21:38 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> At boot, I get: >> [ 12.537108] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 51 for MSI/MSI-X >> ... >> [ 132.676781] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.221.4.1 >> build 25532 op_mode iwldvm >> >> This sounds familiar, but wasn't it fixed awhile ago? > > It wasn't exactly fixed and it's really more of a userspace problem - we > probably request firmware version 8, and then it takes 30 seconds to > time out for each of 8,7,6,5, after which the next request for 4 is > successful. Why's it requesting those firmwares? They don't seem to exist on intellinuxwireless.org. I have: CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y > > I don't know why your userspace isn't behaving differently though. > > johannes > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/