[Orinoco-users] Re: [PATCH] Disable (false?) IRQ check on 2.6 in orinoco_cs (was: yenta_socket.c:yenta_get_status returns bad value compared to 2.4)

[Joseph Gruber]

Are you talking about hanging at "Starting pcmcia" during the boot process? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: orinoco-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:orinoco-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Stefan Jones
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:03 AM
> To: David Gibson
> Cc: linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org; 
> orinoco-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Orinoco-users] Re: [PATCH] Disable (false?) IRQ 
> check on 2.6 in orinoco_cs (was: 
> yenta_socket.c:yenta_get_status returns bad value compared to 2.4)
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 04:16, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:43:31PM +0100, Stefan Jones wrote:
> > > Ok here is the report,
> > > 
> > > I had 
> > > 
> > > CONFIG_ISA=y
> > > in my .config which in turn set
> > > CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y
> > > 
> > > which enabled some invalid (for me) code in
> > > linux/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c
> > > 
> > > as the machine does not need ISA 
> > 
> > Yes it does.  16-bit PCMCIA (PC-Card) is kinda-sorta an extension to
> > the ISA bus, so for 16-bit cards like the orinoco to work 
> properly you
> > will need ISA support.  If your patch below works at all, it is by
> > sheer luck.
> 
> Ok, then the ISA / PCMCIA_PROBE code in the 2.6 kernel needs 
> to be fixed
> so that it does not cause my machine to hang (or is this 
> situation very
> unique / a freak ? ).
> 
> Anyone have any tips / ideas how to do that, as a taster of 
> the problem,
> the first call to the function
> rsrc_mgr.c:void validate_mem(struct pcmcia_socket *s)
> causes the hang for me.
> 
> I will fetch another PCMCIA card and test it also and maybe another
> machine.
> 
> PS. 2.4 works fine so something is amiss .....
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
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