Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem

Pavel Machek
2005-09-02T10:47:44Z

Hi!

> > > > 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
>
> ]--snip--[
>
> One more piece of information. This is the one that loops:
>
> echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout

Try echo -n ...

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