Comment # 1 on bug 907378 from Mathias Homann

I can confirm this bug:

[   11.972481] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19
[   11.972492] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   11.972493] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   11.972499] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   11.972501] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   11.972508] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   11.972916] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb

[   15.046809] Bluetooth: Error in firmware loading err = -110,len = 448, size
= 4096
[   15.046820] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed


Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04ca:300b Lite-On Technology Corp. 


but on my laptop it always fails, not just "from time to time".

openSUSE 13.2 on an acer X86_64 laptop, all updates applied as of 2014-11-29