From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261254AbTEKVzw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2003 17:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261265AbTEKVzw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2003 17:55:52 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:23429 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261254AbTEKVzv (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2003 17:55:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [bug 2.5.69] xirc2ps_cs, irq 3: nobody cared, shutdown hangs From: David Woodhouse To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , Zwane Mwaikambo , Daniel Ritz , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1052673649.29921.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <200305111647.32113.daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> <3EBE8768.4000007@pobox.com> <1052673649.29921.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052690907.15307.10.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5.dwmw2) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:08:27 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jgarzik@pobox.com, zwane@linuxpower.ca, daniel.ritz@gmx.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@diego.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 18:20, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-05-11 at 18:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > If pcmcia hardware disappears on you, you _really_ don't want to be > > bitbanging its ports. PCMCIA has varying pin length for the CD pins and hence gives you a few milliseconds of warning before the card is _actually_ disconnected. After that period of time has elapsed and the card is actually gone, you _really_ don't want to be bitbanging its ports. > Its quite safe to do so. Not on all platforms. -- dwmw2