Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901899
--- Comment #11 from Alex VillacĂs Lasso a_villacis@palosanto.com --- I verified on 3.8-rc5 that the kernel uses request_firmware first. I patched and compiled 3.8-rc5 with the load order reversed (builtin, then request_firmware), and this makes the kernel proceed immediately (no filesystem mount delay). However, this still does not explain why the filesystem mount would get a delay if request_firmware is called before the filesystem is mounted. I used to boot 3.8-rc3 under Fedora 16, and there were no delays, without any need to patch the kernel.
Why does the request_firmware call delay the filesystem mount in Fedora 18?