Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41104: Stale comment removal from pccardd(8) Message-ID: <200207291620.g6TGK3gD091927@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/41104; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org, hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/41104: Stale comment removal from pccardd(8) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:11:22 -0400 On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:03:26AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote the words in effect of: > 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. Ok. When I submitted the PR, and after a while, Greg Lehey, first asked me, "I removed the explanation, but not the claim". Although, we now already have the so-called "loadable kernel modules", so I think, we would need to move the paragraph down, to an "ISSUES" section, and there it can be marked as "historical". Is that permitted? > 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). Does this issue happen with all NEWCARD (network) devices? -- Hiten Pandya http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@xMach.org PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Hiten+Pandya&op=index To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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