Re: Linux 2.6.13

Greg KH
2005-09-01T02:30:06Z

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:41:03AM +0200, Henrik Persson wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > There it is.
> >
> > The most painful part of 2.6.13 is likely to be the fact that we made x86
> > use the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources.
> > That uncovered rather a lot of nasty small details, but should also mean
> > that a lot of laptops in particular should be able to discover PCI devices
> > behind bridges that the BIOS hasn't set up.
> >
> > We've hopefully fixed up all the problems that the longish -rc series
> > showed, and it shouldn't be that painful, but if you have device problems,
> > please make a report that at a minimum contains the unified diff of the
> > output of "lspci -vvx" running on 2.6.12 vs 2.6.13. That might give us
> > some clues.
>
> Well. 2.6.13 won't boot if I have my Netgear WG511 in the cardbus slot.
> It boots just fine if it isn't inserted, though. If I insert it later
> on, the computer will freeze and won't respond, just like it does on boot.
>
> 2.6.12.5 works just fine, and I just did make oldconfig and used the
> defaults (except for the hardware monitoring).
>
> Suggestions, anyone?

Can you try the patch posted to lkml at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112541348008047&w=2
from Ivan to see if that helps this?

thanks,

greg k-h