firmware loader: use small timeout for cache device firmware
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Sat, 4 Aug 2012 04:01:28 +0000 (12:01 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:44:44 +0000 (13:44 -0700)
Because device_cache_fw_images only cache the firmware which has been
loaded sucessfully at leat once, using a small loading timeout should
be reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/firmware_class.c

index 68fd4c698c7745b76d1b42b21a2dc258df7e454a..8ca00524d58f266a4f03a050c0b9f873ab7cf087 100644 (file)
@@ -1146,10 +1146,22 @@ static void device_cache_fw_images(void)
 {
        struct firmware_cache *fwc = &fw_cache;
        struct device *dev;
+       int old_timeout;
        DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
 
        pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
 
+       /*
+        * use small loading timeout for caching devices' firmware
+        * because all these firmware images have been loaded
+        * successfully at lease once, also system is ready for
+        * completing firmware loading now. The maximum size of
+        * firmware in current distributions is about 2M bytes,
+        * so 10 secs should be enough.
+        */
+       old_timeout = loading_timeout;
+       loading_timeout = 10;
+
        device_pm_lock();
        list_for_each_entry(dev, &dpm_list, power.entry)
                dev_cache_fw_image(dev);
@@ -1171,6 +1183,8 @@ static void device_cache_fw_images(void)
        }
        spin_unlock(&fwc->name_lock);
        finish_wait(&fwc->wait_queue, &wait);
+
+       loading_timeout = old_timeout;
 }
 
 /**