Subject: Re: fix for disappeared PCMCIA socket found
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/17/2004 15:13:21
On Saturday 17 July 2004 12:30, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xdffff irq
> pcic0: controller 0 (Cirrus PD6710) has sockets A and B
> pcic0: controller 1 (Unknown controller) has no sockets
> pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
> pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1

As far as I can tell from the Cirrus documents, this is an impossible 
configuration for the PD6710.  It seems likely that the chip is being 
misidentified.  Do you know for sure which PCMCIA controller you have?

> Unless the problem fixed by this commit was serious, could it be backed
> out? This is a regression from 1.6.2 .

Not a chance.  That would cause breakage on other systems.