pccards are not detected

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:31 +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> Marcus Better wrote:
> > Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > > it's a change in PCI init (and your BIOS is broken)...
> > 
> > This laptop is really testing my patience.
> > 
> > > could you test the attached patch?
> > 
> > Yes, it works now! Thanks a lot! Should I disable CONFIG_PCI_BIOS in the
> > future to avoid this?
> 
> no. i'll send the patch towards the PCI maintainer. PCI_BIOS should be the
> last fallback...

It depends.  For some custom systems, BIOS may be a lifesaver.  Let's
not change the whole logic of the PCI detection because of one broken
BIOS.

The standard solution for such problems is to add a "quirk" to
drivers/pci/quirks.c or arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin