From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Steve Smith <tarka@internode.on.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609182337.52990.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060918190902.d5b6a698.akpm@osdl.org>
On Monday 18 September 2006 22:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:31 +1000
> tarka@internode.on.net (Steve Smith) wrote:
>
> > [I sent the following to the person responsible for the patch but
> > haven't heard anything so I assume he's unavailable...]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > With recent kernel releases I have started seeing consistent hangs
> > during boot when a PCMCIA card is present in the slot (the card in
> > question is a Linksys wireless-B card). The symptoms are:
> >
> > If the card is present during boot an error of "Unknown interrupt
> > or fault at EIP ..." appears.
> >
> > If the card is not present there is no error.
> >
> > The card can be plugged-in post-boot without problems.
> >
> > Using git-bisect I have narrowed down the error to one commit, namely
> > "use bitfield instead of p_state and state". The commit# is
> >
> > e2d4096365e06b9a3799afbadc28b4519c0b3526
> >
> > However I am still seeing this problem with the latest -RC releases.
>
> Thanks for doing that.
>
> Damn, that was a huge patch. Have you been able to grab
> a copy of the oops output? It would really help. Even a photo of
> the screen..
>
Hmm, not sure why you CCed me unless you remembered I have Inspiron 8100.
What chipset does that Linksys card use? I just tried one of my PCMCIA
cards with orinoco_cs and it booted fine on today's pull from Linus...
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-16 5:03 Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present Steve Smith
2006-09-19 2:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-19 2:25 ` Steve Smith
2006-09-19 2:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-19 3:37 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-09-19 3:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-19 4:00 ` Steve Smith
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