Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:20:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41104: Stale comment removal from pccardd(8) Message-ID: <200207291520.g6TFK6dk081665@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/41104; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: jhb@FreeBSD.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org,
hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com
Subject: Re: docs/41104: Stale comment removal from pccardd(8)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:19:23 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <XFMail.20020729111003.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
:
: On 29-Jul-2002 M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <XFMail.20020729081434.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: >: Unfortunately using KLD's does not fix this problem and it is still an
: >: issue. I can't eject my cardbus rl0 card w/o my laptop locking up for
: >: exactly this reason. This patch should not be committed unless Warner
: >: (imp@, cc'd) approves.
: >
: > Yes, the comments in the pccardd man page are correct (eg, that's why
: > things are they way they are). However, once the underlying problems
: > in the kernel were fixed, pccardd wasn't updated to be less smart
: > about the resources a card uses. Likely it should read:
: >
: > The primary reasons are historical.
:
: Ah, ok.
:
: > What happens in NEWCARD with a rl card aren't relevant to this
: > discussion :-) The reason that you can't eject the rl0 card has to do
: > with something else (likely an ISR that doesn't properly terminate
: > when the card is gone or a detach routine that's minorly bogus).
:
: Well, it's the same behavior. :-P The rl(4) driver doesn't allow for
: devices to go away and gets stuck in a loop spinning forever waiting
: for a card reset to succeed and the reset keeps failing for obvious
: reasons. Completely hangs the machine. *sigh*
Yes. I've seen it succeed for me. any chance you can get me a
traceback of where it is happening?
Warner
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