Re: pcmcia_bus_type changes cause oops...

[Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:17:03PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> OK, understanding more and more of the problem:
> 
> Firstly, though: is all compiled as modules? 

Yes indeed.

> If not, it's really strange, as
> I use the same driver locally, but built into the kernel. This is what I'd
> recommend for cs.o, ds.o and pci-socket.o/yenta.o anyways.
[...]

> So, I'd suggest you do one of these two things:
> a) modify the process done by modprobe to load the modules in the following
>    order:
> 	- cs.ko

cs.ko doesn't exist, it is part of pcmcia_core here.

> 	- pci-socket.ko/yenta.ko
> 	- ds.ko
> 	- pcnet_cs.ko

Actually this is using the RedHat standard way: /etc/init.d/pcmcia
loads, in order pcmcia_core, yenta.

pcnet_cs get loaded by hotplug, triggered by one of the above modules.

So it seems that what you want is that I disable hotplugging and 
loading pcnet_cs by hand later... Hmmm.

> _or_ b) compile cs.ko / pci-socket.ko/yenta.ko into the kernel
> 
> until I get a proper fix for this problem. 

Sure, I'll try that.

> The requirement of having to load
> the socket drivers before ds.ko will be removed soon... that patch is
> already in my queue somewhere (and will remove the issue you're seeing
> almost surely), but depends on some other stuff. But maybe I can split the
> decisive things out sooner, let's see...

Stelian.
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