[regression] Re: 2.6.26-rc6: pcmcia stopped working

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Hmm, hitting sysrq-w produces no blocked task until I eject pcmcia
> > card. Backtrace there is:
> > 
> > Greg, I believe some traces lead to sysfs, can you help here?
> 
> ide_unregister() does not complete :-(.
> 
>         device_unregister(&hwif->gendev);
> +       printk("ide_unregister: waiting for rel_comp\n");
>         wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp);
> 
> ...that wait_for_completion never returns.

...and this fixes PCMCIA/IDE for me... (Pseudopatch)

								Pavel

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -336,29 +341,38 @@ void ide_unregister(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
 			++irq_count;
 		g = g->next;
 	} while (g != hwgroup->hwif);
 	if (irq_count == 1)
 		free_irq(hwif->irq, hwgroup);
 
 	ide_remove_port_from_hwgroup(hwif);
 
 	device_unregister(hwif->portdev);
 	device_unregister(&hwif->gendev);
-	wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp);
+//	wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp);
+	msleep(1000);
 
 	/*
 	 * Remove us from the kernel's knowledge
 	 */

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