Patch that breaks Cardbus support on HP zv5460us laptop

Chris Lu zagarus at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 10:22:53 EDT 2006


I did try pci=assign-busses before unapplying the patch, which didn't
help anything.

On 8/11/06, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
> Chris Lu wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Using git-bisect I found the patch that breaks cardbus support on my
> > HP zv5460 laptop. This was applied between 2.6.14-rc2 and -rc3;
> > reversing the patch on 2.6.17.7 makes Cardbus work where it formerly
> > did not. sha1sum of the patch is:
> >
> > 12f44f46bc9c6dc79255e661b085797af395d8da
> >
> > I have attached lspci -vvv output; please ask if you need more info.
> > (lspci output is with Cardbus card inserted.)
>
> Did you try the "pci=assign-busses" option before you reverted that patch? Is
> your system running a 32- or 64-bit system?
>
> This breakage needs to be sent to linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org. As you have seen
> from the short log accompanying that patch, it was signed-off-by Andrew Morton
> and Linus Torvalds - you cannot get any higher than that.
>
> I have some personal interest in this problem as the patch in question fixed a
> problem that kept my machine from booting with any cardbus card in the adapter.
>
> Larry
>
>
>



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