[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)

David Gibson hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Jul 31 10:40:46 BST 2003


On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Stefan Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:02:50AM +0100, Stefan Jones wrote:
> > > > I had 
> > > > 
> > > > CONFIG_ISA=y
> > > > in my .config which in turn set
> > > > CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I just found this on the lkml by Alan Cox:
> 
> PATCH: fix pcmcia_cs without ISA
> 
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.3/0992.html
> 
> related? What impact?

Sorry, don't know I'm afraid.  I don't know why ISA support would have
broken for your machine in recent kernels.

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