Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:17:54 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Martin Drohmann <m_droh01@uni-muenster.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does printk helps PCMCIA card to initialise?
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:38:17PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> The first thing that needs solving is why you're getting the "odd IO
> request" crap.  That may explain why the resource can't be allocated.

In cs.c, alloc_io_space(), find the line:

    if (*base & ~(align-1)) {

delete the ~ and rebuild.  This may resolve your problem.

This looks like a long standing bug in the PCMCIA code, going back to
2.4 kernels.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core
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