Return-path: Received: from mail-ve0-f171.google.com ([209.85.128.171]:40304 "EHLO mail-ve0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752134Ab3HBQZA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 12:25:00 -0400 Received: by mail-ve0-f171.google.com with SMTP id pa12so893791veb.30 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:24:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1375460484.18144.11.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> References: <1375460484.18144.11.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 09:24:38 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20130802_182524_111388_6577EC18) Subject: Re: 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-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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) I have an "Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)". It's requesting at least versions 6 and 5 (I saw them in udevadm monitor). It looks like the g2a and g2b variants have -5 and -6 versions, but 6000-4 appears to be the only relevant version for my hardware.