Subject: Re: kern/26726: com driver probe degraded
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@pultek.co.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/17/2004 16:21:19
> please take a look at kern/26726. it seems that recent change to
> com_pcmcia.c degraded com* device probe. the culprit revision is
> identified. this is rather serious as it affects any users with
> pcmcia/CF card modems. even though bug report is filed there's no fix
> available. i propose to back out the change. any objections?
Interestingly, a PCMCIA serial card which hadn't worked before is
working now.
% uname -a
NetBSD oratosquilla.PLALA-ADSL 2.0G NetBSD 2.0G (LIBRETTOL2) #10: Wed Sep 8 22:51:30 JST 2004 uebayasi@power.pultek.co.jp:/src/NetBSD/kernel/sys/arch/i386/compile/LIBRETTOL2 i386
% dmesg | grep com0
com0 at pcmcia0 function 0: <Socket Communications Inc, Serial Port Adapter Revision B, ^Z^E^A, >
com0: ns16550a, working fifo
I haven't looked into which changes made what, but this shows that the
current code is not totally broken.
Masao