linux-kernel - Re: Slow firmware timeouts again (Re: [3.11 regression?] iwlwifi firmware takes two minutes to load)

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Message-ID: <20130802162850.GL32474@in.waw.pl>
Date:	Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:28:50 +0200
From:	Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@...waw.pl>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Slow firmware timeouts again (Re: [3.11 regression?] iwlwifi
 firmware takes two minutes to load)

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
Do you need this? Unsetting this should help.

"""This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper
(e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the
direct file loading in kernel fails. The user-mode helper is
no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that
resides in a non-standard path."""

Zbyszek
-- 
they are not broken. they are refucktored
                           -- alxchk
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