[Bug 13426] booting with Prism2/2.5 PCMCIA card inserted crashes hard

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--- Comment #14 from Wim Osterholt <wim at djo.tudelft.nl>  2010-02-19 22:50:28 ---
bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org zei ooit: 
>Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:07:34 GMT
>From: bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org
>Subject: [Bug 13426] booting with Prism2/2.5 PCMCIA card inserted crashes hard
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13426
> 
> --- Comment #13 from Dominik Brodowski <linux at brodo.de>  2010-02-19 18:07:08 ---
>
> So the card works fine if it is inserted post-boot? I fear this bug might be
> one of the cases where we are the PCMCIA subsystem turned out not to do proper
> locking. Could you try whether the extensive patchset to be found at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6.git helps?
> 

As I said, 'a hostap loading card'. It does not occur with other PCMCIA
cards (3com network, Fujitsu modem, New Media SCSI, Future Domain SCSI)
or cardbus cards (Xircom network, 3com and others).

It does occur with any brand of prism2.5 card (Senao, Belkin, BenQ,
chinese clones).
It did not happen with an old Belkin prism2.0 card. However, hostap wasn't
loaded automatically for that card because there was no entry for it in the
compiled-in table. Once I added that, it behaved the same as the other prism
cards.
All these cards work fine when inserted at the login prompt.

I'll try the patchset later..

Regards, Wim.


----- wim at djo.tudelft.nl -----

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