hi
Hi
Thanks for your effort!
it's the second time now i see this problem with an atheros chipset in combination with a TI bridge. last time it was the 1225... attached a patch that could help...
Report: 1) It works somewhat better. irq doesn't get disabled. 2) however wlan card get disfunctional. I haven't been able to contact my wap even if i'm standing on it... 3) unplug has resulted in kernel panic (twice) (btw: how do I do to capture and report those) 4) when unlug don't produce kernel panic, then there is no way of power-oning that card again. 5) booting with the card inserted makes it not power on when yenta_socket is loaded (module)
comment: the card being disfunction could have something to with the driver. but before it worked sometimes...
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for TI bridges: turn off interrupts during card power-on. this seems to be neccessary for some combination of TI bridges with at least CB cards with atheros chipset...problem is that they produce an interrupt storm during power-on so the kernel happens to disable the IRQ which is a bad thing (tm). adds a generic hook function so that a socket driver can hook into almost anywhere (by adding more hook points of course). this is the cleanest way i can think of. and it allows adding more workarounds for more problems... for the TI specific interrupt on-off stuff just save the MFUNC register and set it to 0 to disable all interrupts, restore it afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Some thoughts: (not I'm neither pcmcia nor linux expert).
The "irq storm", shouldn't that be "acked" in someway. I.e. the card produced a lot of irq's (that get ignored) isn't the "real" solution to capture them, and "do something clever"?
Instead of just "shutting the card down".
hmmm...wonder if that made sence
Question: Why do you think that it worked sometimes before?
/Jonas
ps.
but the hook was/is nice :-)
ds.
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