Re: [PCMCIA] Xircom nic hang on boot since cs.c race condition patch

["Jeremy T. Bouse" <Jeremy.Bouse@UnderGrid.net>]

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	Not sure if it's related but I've had problems with PCMCIA support in
the test kernels myself... The Cisco Aironet 350 has problems and I've
been able to make any use of the Orinoco Gold wireless card...
Fortunately the ethernet card is built in on PCI bus and doesn't have
any problem but I had being corded down...

	Regards,
	Jeremy

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:47:48PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:33:36 BST, Russell King said:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:44:06PM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> > > [PCMCIA] Fix race condition causing cards to be incorrectly recognised
> > > 
> > > This patch that went into test5 causes my Toshiba laptop with Xircom 
> > > pcmcia nic to freeze on boot at "Socket status: 30000020".  
> > 
> > Unfortunately this patch does two things:
> > 
> > (a) it fixes the problem with PCMCIA cards not being recognised on boot.
> > (b) it introduces a deadlock between the PCMCIA layer and the driver
> >     model.
> 
> OK... so what's different about Sean's Toshiba and my Dell (or alternatively,
> the fact we both have Xircom cards) that the *old* code worked just fine?
> 
> Is it the fact that it's a multi-function card?
> 
> lspci -v says:
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03)
>         Subsystem: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
>         I/O ports at 1000 [size=128]
>         Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Memory at 10800800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Expansion ROM at 10400000 [disabled] [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 
> 03:00.1 Serial controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet + 56k Modem (rev 03) (prog-if 02 [16550])
>         Subsystem: Xircom CBEM56G-100 Ethernet + 56k Modem
>         Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
>         I/O ports at 1080 [size=8]
>         Memory at 10801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Memory at 10801800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Expansion ROM at 10404000 [disabled] [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 
> I could see problems if the serial controller is being added while the ethernet
> controller is still getting its act together while holding locks, since it's one
> physical card.
> 
> I admit not being hot on the programming model  for cardbus, but I'm
> quite willing to test patches.. ;)
> 
> 



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