From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756522AbZCFR61 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:58:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754133AbZCFR55 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:57:57 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:34423 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753080AbZCFR54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:57:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:50:36 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Martin Bammer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: usb/host/pci-quirks: Add option for setting handoff timeout for ehci Message-ID: <20090306175036.GC3099@kroah.com> References: <1236340355.16732.23.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1236340355.16732.23.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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