Something is changing the firmware loading timeout
Firmware default loading timeout is set to 60 seconds by a Fedora
patch (it's 10 seconds in the stock kernel.) Somehow, by the time
I've finished booting it's back to 10 seconds. Does anyone have an
idea why? I came up with this patch to make the minimum 60 seconds,
still allowing 0 for "no timeout."
--- linux-2.6.20.noarch/drivers/base/firmware_class.c.orig 2007-03-26 14:20:38.000000000
-0400
+++ linux-2.6.20.noarch/drivers/base/firmware_class.c 2007-03-26 18:10:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -81,8 +81,15 @@
firmware_timeout_store(struct class *class, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
loading_timeout = simple_strtol(buf, NULL, 10);
- if (loading_timeout < 0)
+ if (loading_timeout <= 0)
loading_timeout = 0;
+ else if (loading_timeout < 60) {
+ if (printk_ratelimit)
+ printk(KERN_INFO
+ "firmware_class: attempt to set timeout to %d\n",
+ loading_timeout);
+ loading_timeout = 60;
+ }
return count;
}