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Subject: Re: [3.11 regression?] iwlwifi firmware takes two minutes to load
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 21:38 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> At boot, I get:
> [   12.537108] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 51 for MSI/MSI-X
> ...
> [  132.676781] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.221.4.1
> build 25532 op_mode iwldvm
> 
> This sounds familiar, but wasn't it fixed awhile ago?

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.

I don't know why your userspace isn't behaving differently though.

johannes