Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem

Andrew Morton
2005-09-01T21:25:51Z

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, 1 of September 2005 12:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/
>
> I cannot start PCMCIA on x86-64 SuSE 9.3 on Asus L5D. Apparently, the following
> command:
>
> sh -c modprobe --ignore-install firmware_class; echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
>
> loops forever with almost 100% of the time spent in the kernel.
>
> AFAICS, 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 is also affected, but the mainline kernels are not.

OK. There are no notable firmware changes in there. While it's stuck
could you generate a kernel profile? I do:

readprofile -r
sleep 5
readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n +2 | tail -40