The patch titled EHCI pci-quirks.c: don't wait so long for BIOS handoff has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ehci-pci-quirksc-dont-wait-so-long-for-bios-handoff.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: EHCI pci-quirks.c: don't wait so long for BIOS handoff From: Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Instead of waiting a painful 5000ms, quirk_usb_disable_ehci() now does a 1000ms loop to wait for the BIOS to acknowledge the handoff. The five second delay is really quite irritating to have to deal with every boot up, and I very seriously doubt any non-broken bios takes more than a second to do the actual handoff. Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c~ehci-pci-quirksc-dont-wait-so-long-for-bios-handoff drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c --- a/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c~ehci-pci-quirksc-dont-wait-so-long-for-bios-handoff +++ a/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static void __devinit quirk_usb_disable_ /* if boot firmware now owns EHCI, spin till * it hands it over. */ - msec = 5000; + msec = 1000; while ((cap & EHCI_USBLEGSUP_BIOS) && (msec > 0)) { tried_handoff = 1; msleep(10); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch ehci-pci-quirksc-dont-wait-so-long-for-bios-handoff.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html