From: Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atmel at76c50x PCMCIA 2.6.6 kernel panic
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:59:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040717035922.GA2415@espresso> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A0E1CB.20209@thekelleys.org.uk>
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Dear Simon,
Is this patch still necessary? It wasn't merged in with 2.6.7 and I
haven't noticed it in the 2.6.8-rc1 changelog either. I'd test it
myself, but I don't have access to a wireless access point at the
moment.
Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:23:07PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
> Andrew Lau wrote:
> >Hi Simon and co.,
> >
> >My Atmel AT76C502AR_D 802.11b PCMCIA card was previously working fine
> >under the 2.6.5 kernel via the atmel/atmel_cs modules. However, since
> >upgrading to 2.6.6 I now get a kernel panic whenever I insert my card
> >and hotplug (2004-03-29) attempts to upload the 0.7-1 version of Simon's
> >firmware <http://thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/>. I've provided as much
> >debugging information as I can below, so feel free to let me know if
> >I've missed out on anything.
> >
> >Thanks in advanced,
> >Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
> >
> >PS: Please CC: me as I'm not on LKML.
> >
>
> Sorry 'bout that: I believe that this is a casualty of ongoing
> driver-model changes. I have the following patch which purports to work
> around the problem. Please could you try i and let me know:
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
> --- linux.orig/drivers/net/wireless/atmel_cs.c
> +++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/atmel_cs.c
> @@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ static struct {
>
> static struct device atmel_device = {
> .bus_id = "pcmcia",
> + .kobj = {
> + .k_name = "atmel_cs"
> + }
> };
>
> static void atmel_config(dev_link_t *link)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-17 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 13:41 Atmel at76c50x PCMCIA 2.6.6 kernel panic Andrew Lau
2004-05-12 11:06 ` Kiko Piris
[not found] ` <40A0E1CB.20209@thekelleys.org.uk>
2004-05-16 15:02 ` Andrew Lau
2004-07-17 3:59 ` Andrew Lau [this message]
2004-07-17 12:46 ` Bob Tracy
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