Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 22:11:46 EST


On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:31 +1000
tarka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (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..


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