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Subject: Re: Slow firmware timeouts again (Re: [3.11 regression?] iwlwifi
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On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 09:04 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> > 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.

Well for one you've never even mentioned what device you have, and then
also it's not requesting 8/7 only 6,5,4 -- I guess the timeout was
increased to 60 seconds (or I'm remembering wrong and it always was? I
thought it was 30s)

johannes