From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262913AbVG3V4p (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:56:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262907AbVG3V4p (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:56:45 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:8971 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262886AbVG3VzT (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:55:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:55:11 +0100 From: Russell King To: Pavel Machek Cc: Richard Purdie , kernel list Subject: Re: Heads up for distro folks: PCMCIA hotplug differences (Re: -rc4: arm broken?) Message-ID: <20050730225511.O26592@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Pavel Machek , Richard Purdie , kernel list References: <20050730130406.GA4285@elf.ucw.cz> <1122741937.7650.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050730201508.B26592@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050730223628.M26592@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050730214152.GE9418@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050730214152.GE9418@elf.ucw.cz>; from pavel@ucw.cz on Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:41:52PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:41:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > I merged -rc4 into my zaurus tree, and now zaurus will not boot. I see > > > > > oops-like display, and it seems to be __call_usermodehelper / > > > > > do_execve / load_script related. Anyone seen it before? > > > > > > > > For the record -rc4 works fine on my Zaurus c760 (which is pxa255 based > > > > rather than sa1100). > > > > > > It appears to work fine on Intel Assabet. > > > > Let me qualify that, because it's not 100% fine due to the changes in > > PCMCIA land. > > > > Since PCMCIA cards are detected and drivers bound at boot time, we no > > longer get hotplug events to setup networking for PCMCIA network cards > > already inserted. Consequently, if you are relying on /sbin/hotplug to > > setup your PCMCIA network card at boot time, triggered by the cardmgr > > startup binding the driver, it won't happen. > > Does that mean that if CF is inserted during bootup, it will simply > appear as /dev/hda after bootup, without need to run cardmgr? Yes, which is almost a plus side. Whether you can use it to boot from or not may depend on the timing of the boot up - it looks like it may suffer the same problems as trying to boot off your USB hard drive. Try it and see. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core