linux 2.6 pcmcia power issues

David Hinds dhinds at sonic.net
Sun Feb 27 16:45:10 EST 2005


On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:06:22PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:03:34PM +0100, Elmar Athmer wrote:
> > Hi
> > | That's because 2.4 doesn't report the problem.
> > 
> > But 'cardctl info' gives useful information with 2.4, 2.6 reports only
> > empty values.
> 
> I repeat.  2.4 kernels do not warn when they are unable to remove
> socket power.
> 
> cardctl <anything> also won't tell you when this condition exists.

Has anyone ever observed a situation where the "unable to remove
socket power" message did not indicate that the entire CardBus bridge
register set was inaccessible due to a bad memory mapping?

-- Dave




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