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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Bammer <mrbm74@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usb/host/pci-quirks: Add option for setting handoff timeout for ehci
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:50:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090306175036.GC3099@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236340355.16732.23.camel@localhost>

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:52:35PM +0100, Martin Bammer wrote:
> When having a buggy BIOS which doesn't do ehci handoff correctly a 8s
> boot delay is the result. This patch adds a kernel command line
> parameter ehci_ho_to to be able to set an arbitrary timeout. On my
> netbook I've set it to 50 which works without any problems. Maybe the
> patch would be interesting for others?

I don't see how this makes anything go faster, you are just changing the
timeout value, which should only make things fail faster, not succeed
faster :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06 11:52 usb/host/pci-quirks: Add option for setting handoff timeout for ehci Martin Bammer
2009-03-06 17:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-03-06 19:26   ` Martin Bammer
2009-03-07  2:22     ` Greg KH

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