From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:58:51 +0200
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On Friday, 2 of September 2005 12:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > > On Thursday, 1 of September 2005 12:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/
> > > > > 
> > > > > I cannot start PCMCIA on x86-64 SuSE 9.3 on Asus L5D.  Apparently, the following
> > > > > command:
> > > > > 
> > > > > sh -c modprobe --ignore-install firmware_class; echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
> > > > > 
> > > > > loops forever with almost 100% of the time spent in the kernel.
> > > > > 
> > > > > AFAICS, 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 is also affected, but the mainline kernels are not.
> > > > 
> > > > OK.  There are no notable firmware changes in there.  While it's stuck
> > > > could you generate a kernel profile?    I do:
> > > > 
> > > > readprofile -r
> > > > sleep 5
> > > > readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n +2 | tail -40
> > 
> > ]--snip--[
> > 
> > One more piece of information.  This is the one that loops:
> > 
> > echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
> 
> Try echo -n ...

Well that helps but it means the SuSE's scripts have to be changed to work with
2.6.13-mm1.  Specifically "/etc/modprobe.d/firmware".  Is that intentional or not?

Rafael


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