Subject: Re: 3.0 pcmcia regressions?
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/04/2006 08:36:39
On Jan 4, 1:15am, jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: 3.0 pcmcia regressions?
| } a similar patch fixes a few other devices, but not all of them. I
| } am ok for pulling this up to 3.0 as long as there is a big XXX comment
|
| Just 3.0, or -current as well?
Just 3.0. For current we need to find out what is wrong...
| } next to it saying that this is a workaround to another problem.
|
| Documented in doc/HACKS as well?
|
| I don't know PCMCIA very well. Can somebody provide a short
| description of the problem and what the patch does, please?
For HACKS in 3.0? Something like: On some cards the card align field
property value interferes with the rbus resource allocation causing
the card not to configure properly. Setting it to 0 fixes the problem
but it is not the proper solution. This is done on aic_pcmcia.c
christos