From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752013AbWISCJS (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752014AbWISCJR (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:09:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36489 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752013AbWISCJR (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:09:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:09:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: tarka@internode.on.net (Steve Smith) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present Message-Id: <20060918190902.d5b6a698.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060916050331.GA6685@lucretia.remote.isay.com.au> References: <20060916050331.GA6685@lucretia.remote.isay.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:31 +1000 tarka@internode.on.net (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..