[PATCH 27/28] Driver Core: Increase the default timeout value of the firmware subsystem

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 19:33:52 EST


From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174589

The ipw driver sometimes takes a long time to load its firmware.
Whilst the ipw driver should be using the async interface of
the firmware loader to make this a non-issue, this is a minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 64558f4..c0a979a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ enum {
FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG,
};

-static int loading_timeout = 10; /* In seconds */
+static int loading_timeout = 60; /* In seconds */

/* fw_lock could be moved to 'struct firmware_priv' but since it is just
* guarding for corner cases a global lock should be OK */
--
1.4.4.4

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