Re: 2.5.20 tulip bogosities

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>]

Patrick Mochel wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mikael,
>>
>>Can you try an experiment for me?
>>
>>Run 2.5.19 with the 2.5.20 tulip.  Just copy drivers/net/tulip/* from 
>>2.5.20 into 2.5.19.
>>
>>Nothing changed in 2.5.20 tulip that should cause that, AFAICS.  So I 
>>want to narrow down the problem before looking further.
> 
> 
> There was a bug in the PCI code that only passed the first device ID the 
> driver supported to the driver's probe callback. It caused a few other 
> oddities. A patch was posted to the list:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102316813812289&w=2
> 
> and is now in Linus' tree. It should fix the problem, if you get a chance 
> to test it...

Just wanted to restate that this patch is still not enough to
  make my Xircom PCI CardBus card work properly (xircom_cb driver).

Jun  7 12:49:24 dolphin cardmgr[597]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

All LEDs on the card never light up at all.

--alessandro

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