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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:34:43 +0100
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] cardbus/hotplugging still broken in 2.5.56
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Zwane Mwaikambo writes:
 > yOn Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > 
 > > Cardbus/hotplugging is still broken in 2.5.56. Inserting a
 > > card fails due a bogus 'resource conflict', and ejecting it
 > > oopses the kernel. It's been this way since 2.5.4x-something.
 > > 
 > > Dell Latitude, Texas PCI1131 cardbus bridge, 3c575_cb NIC.
 > 
 > I think its a matter of resource collisions only and the oops is 
 > inadequate cleanup on failure. I've tested cardbus/hotplugging on a TI PCI1211 and 
 > Tulip 21142 based NIC. Perhaps find the last working kernel?

I did some tests yesterday, and 2.5.49 was the last kernel to work at all:
boot, insert NIC, and it goes up. But the last few 2.5.4x all seemed to
handle ejection incorrectly: ejecting and reinserting the NIC did _not_
successfully enable it, and manually down/up eth0 didn't help.

/Mikael
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