On Friday, 2 of September 2005 12:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > > On Thursday, 1 of September 2005 12:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/
> > > > >
> > > > > I cannot start PCMCIA on x86-64 SuSE 9.3 on Asus L5D. Apparently,
> > > > > the following
> > > > > command:
> > > > >
> > > > > sh -c modprobe --ignore-install firmware_class; echo 30 >
> > > > > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
> > > > >
> > > > > loops forever with almost 100% of the time spent in the kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > AFAICS, 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 is also affected, but the mainline kernels are
> > > > > not.
> > > >
> > > > OK. There are no notable firmware changes in there. While it's stuck
> > > > could you generate a kernel profile? I do:
> > > >
> > > > readprofile -r
> > > > sleep 5
> > > > readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n +2 | tail -40
> >
> > ]--snip--[
> >
> > One more piece of information. This is the one that loops:
> >
> > echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
>
> Try echo -n ...
Well that helps but it means the SuSE's scripts have to be changed to work with
2.6.13-mm1. Specifically "/etc/modprobe.d/firmware". Is that intentional or
not?
Rafael
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