From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 29 8:20:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37CF37B401 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF67043E31 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6TFK6JU081666 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6TFK6dk081665; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207291520.g6TFK6dk081665@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: docs/41104: Stale comment removal from pccardd(8) Reply-To: "M. Warner Losh" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/41104; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "M. Warner Losh" 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: John Baldwin writes: : : On 29-Jul-2002 M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: : > John Baldwin 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message