Re: yenta_socket rapid fires interrupts

[Stefan Seyfried]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> What I don't see is why the port changes state, then. Since the yenta 
> driver doesn't care for the interrupt anyway, it shouldn't be touching the 
> hardware, and if it doesn't touch the hardware, then the pcmcia thing 
> should eventually just calm down, even if it were to de-bounce a few 
> times.
>
> The above is what you'd likely see if somebody was forcing a reset on the
> card or a card voltage re-interrogation all the time, which I don't see
> why it would happen.

i have a "feeling" that a weak power supply or a little bit too high 
current draw from the card may cause something like this. But this is 
just what i wrote: a feeling from my stomach ;-)

Stefan
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