From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751080AbWISDh4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751197AbWISDh4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:56 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:60826 "EHLO asav11.insightbb.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751080AbWISDhz (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AR4FABUCD0WBT4oSLA From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Steve Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060916050331.GA6685@lucretia.remote.isay.com.au> <20060918190902.d5b6a698.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060918190902.d5b6a698.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609182337.52990.dtor@insightbb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 18 September 2006 22:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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.. > Hmm, not sure why you CCed me unless you remembered I have Inspiron 8100. 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