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

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> 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.