Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 10:20:24 EST


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:55:29 GMT, Russell King said:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:36:36AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> > This is still showing the same 'cs: unable to map card memory!' issue on my
> > Dell laptop. Backing out bk-pci.patch makes it work again.
> >
> > For what it's worth, the hotplug system wasn't able to initialize the wireless
> > card (TrueMobile 1150) at boot - still needed cardmgr to get it started up.
> > But that might just me being an idiot...
>
> It's probably a clash between the PCI updates and the PCMCIA updates.
>
> The PCI updates change the prototype of a helper function for
> pci_bus_alloc_resource(), but don't touch the actual helper function
> in PCMCIA.

That explains the warning messages that gcc was tossing, which I suspected was
involved...

> This means that the PCI update is actually broken - if it's merged as
> is into Linus' tree, PCMCIA will break there as well.

Is the patch made to PCI actually incorrect, or is the proper way to do this
to propagate the changes into the relevant PCMCIA code?

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