Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:37:02 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: m_droh01@uni-muenster.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does printk helps PCMCIA card to initialise?
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.

That looks right to me - I'll queue up a fix for after 2.6.11.
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