Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:52 -0400
Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday 18 September 2006 22:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:31 +1000
> > [email protected] (Steve Smith) wrote:
> > 
> > > [I sent the following to the person responsible for the patch but
> > > haven't heard anything so I assume he's unavailable...]
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > With recent kernel releases I have started seeing consistent hangs
> > > during boot when a PCMCIA card is present in the slot (the card in
> > > question is a Linksys wireless-B card).  The symptoms are:
> > > 
> > >     If the card is present during boot an error of "Unknown interrupt
> > >     or fault at EIP ..." appears.
> > > 
> > >     If the card is not present there is no error.
> > > 
> > >     The card can be plugged-in post-boot without problems.
> > > 
> > > Using git-bisect I have narrowed down the error to one commit, namely
> > > "use bitfield instead of p_state and state".  The commit# is
> > > 
> > >     e2d4096365e06b9a3799afbadc28b4519c0b3526
> > >
> > > However I am still seeing this problem with the latest -RC releases.
> > 
> > Thanks for doing that.
> > 
> > Damn, that was a huge patch.  Have you been able to grab
> > a copy of the oops output?  It would really help.  Even a photo of
> > the screen..
> > 
> 
> Hmm, not sure why you CCed me unless you remembered I have Inspiron 8100.

oop, I get my Dominiks and Dmitrys mixed up for some reason, sorry.

> What chipset does that Linksys card use? I just tried one of my PCMCIA
> cards with orinoco_cs and it booted fine on today's pull from Linus...
>  
> -- 
> Dmitry
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