From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:09:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210051659530.1587-100000@home.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r8f47af4.fsf@p4.localdomain>
On 6 Oct 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote:
>
> My PCMCIA network card no longer works. During boot, I see this
> message:
>
> ds: no socket drivers loaded
>
> It worked in 2.5.39. Also this patch helps, although I don't
> understand why it is now needed:
The PCMCIA code does initializations in the wrong order, and
asynchronously (ie from multiple different threads). And init_pcmcia_ds()
really depends on the actual low-level drivers having had time to
register, since the PCMCIA code never had any sane way to inform the DS
layer that a new client driver had registered.
Thus the delay by init_pcmcia_ds() - to give time for drivers to
initialize. And the yenta driver needs some time.. That time apparently
went up a bit, probably due to the tq/work changes.
The _right_ thing to do is to not have init_pcmcia_ds() depend on
low-level drivers being initialized, but instead do that DS thing
_early_, and then when each driver initializes it would tell the DS layer.
But that's not how the PCMCIA code was organized..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-06 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 7:32 Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 7:39 ` DevilKin
2002-10-01 8:00 ` jbradford
2002-10-01 8:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 8:23 ` Thomas Molina
2002-10-01 8:27 ` DevilKin
2002-10-01 10:28 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 8:49 ` Gregoire Favre
2002-10-01 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-01 12:25 ` jlnance
2002-10-01 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 17:02 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-01 14:48 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-01 17:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-01 17:44 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-01 21:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-01 22:51 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-02 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-02 0:52 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-02 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-02 12:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-02 6:51 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-05 22:28 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-10-05 22:39 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-05 23:06 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-10-06 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2002-10-08 21:56 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] <fa.mpta6av.960ggh@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hu1gd9v.fku81p@ifi.uio.no>
2002-10-01 7:41 ` Nils O. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sel=E5sdal=22?= <noselasd@Utel.no>
2002-10-01 11:39 Markus Weiss
2002-10-01 16:35 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
[not found] <96096729@toto.iv>
2002-10-01 23:06 ` Peter Chubb
2002-10-02 0:26 ` Chris Wedgwood
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