possible bug in pd6729

[Komuro]

Hi,

(1) Does your pcmcia card work properly, if you remove the code below?
    (while loop)

(2)Please post the full dmesg (with the docking station).



Best Regards
Komuro


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>
>Jun,
>
>You probably don't remember me but I emailed you probably 5 or 6 years ago 
>when you first came out with the pd6729 driver. Again, thanks for all your 
>work. I couldn't use my laptop if not for your work.
>
>I do think I have a bug to report though. Starting at line 193, the code 
>says this:
> while (1) {
>  loopcount++;
>  if (loopcount > 20) {
>   printk(KERN_ERR "pd6729: infinite eventloop "
>          "in interrupt\n");
>   break;
>  }
>
>It appears to me that every time it gets to that code, it will print the 
>"infinate event loop" message to the console. There's no way out of the loop 
>except by exceeding the loopcount and printing the message. I have a laptop 
>with a pd6729 pcmcia controller and if I use the docking station, it prints 
>that message to the console about once a second for as long as it's 
>connected to the docking station.
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