[PATCH] PCMCIA: Disable probing on parisc

Russell King rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Dec 4 05:33:38 EST 2005


On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:04:23AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> PCMCIA port and memory probing is broken on parisc, disabling both
> allows the PCMCIA subsystem to work on parisc systems.

Do you know why it's broken?

The memory probing works by mapping the CIS into memory and then trying
to read it.  If you're saying it's broken, that implies that we can't
read the CIS, and therefore we can't use the addresses being probed.

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



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