"unable to apply power" problem in 2.6.6

[Russell King]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:42:24PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 15:49, Ryan Verner wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 06:44, Russell King wrote:
> > > It seems that some cardbus controllers just get stuck and refuse point
> > > blankly to enable power to the socket without reporting why they're
> > 
> > Ok. maybe I can help here.  I don't think it's the cardbus controller.
> 
> Is this list the best place to ask?  I'd really like to help to get this
> problem solved; it's certainly causing me problems at the moment (I need
> Cardbus working on high powered systems); not being a kernel hacker
> myself though, the best I can do is provide information.  At the least,
> I'd like to identify what exactly is in the system that's causing the
> problem so I can replace whatever the issue is; I'm suspecting the
> chipset used in the board, perhaps?
> 
> Can you please let me know what I can provide, how I could track down
> this issue, or point me in another direction?

Well, this list has David Hinds, myself, Dominik Brodowski and a few
other developers on, which are what you could call "the most active
Linux kernel PCMCIA people" so by that it is the most appropriate
place to ask.

That said, I have other commitments which don't allow me to work full
time on PCMCIA, and Dominik does other stuff as well, so there's little
chance for us to do a deep investigation.

What we really need are more good kernel developers in PCMCIA land who
are willing to look into issues like this - I do suspect that, where
they occur on the x86 architecture, they may be related to other areas
which I certainly have a lack of knowledge (eg, ACPI or BIOS quirks)
since I'm not an x86 guy.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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