Re: pcmcia-cs 3.2.5 and linux-2.4.23-pre9

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:16:43PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:

> Your revised Configure file does indeed make pcmcia-cs-3.2.5 work with
> Red Hat kernel 2.4.20-20.9nP (the nP means I've recompiled it with
> pcmcia disabled).  There are many, many new messages during boot and
> startup.  These appear to be from the cs memory probe.  I am scarcely 
> competent to read and understand them all.  In the end there are these:
> 
> Nov 21 10:32:12 datbird kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x037f: excluding 0x378
> -0x37f
> Nov 21 10:32:12 datbird kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0400-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0
> -0x4d7
> Nov 21 10:32:12 datbird kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> Nov 21 10:32:12 datbird kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> 
> Previously with default RH 9 kernel 2.4.20-8nP and pcmcia-cs-3.2.3,
> all four of these address ranges were found "clean".

These look fine.  But from what you say, there are also "many, many"
other messages which does not sound fine.  Can you show those please??

I'm not sure how these ranges could have been "clean" before.  Perhaps
you had another driver loaded at that time, that had claimed the
excluded ranges.

-- Dave


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