[PATCH] IPW2100 fails to load firmware when booting on battery

[Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>]

We carry this patch around since a while. Is it safe to increase the
timeout also in mainline?

References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74526

IPW2100 fails to load firmware when booting on battery; increasing the
timeout solves the problem.


diff -urNp linux-2.6.12/drivers/base/firmware_class.c linux-2.6.12.SUSE/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
--- linux-2.6.12/drivers/base/firmware_class.c	2005-08-05 11:36:43.908851520 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.12.SUSE/drivers/base/firmware_class.c	2005-08-05 11:41:23.737311128 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ enum {
 	FW_STATUS_READY,
 };
 
-static int loading_timeout = 10;	/* In seconds */
+static int loading_timeout = 30;	/* 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 */

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 alias appserv=wotan
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