"Rao, Ram R" wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just upgraded my assabet kernel to 2.4.2-rmk1-np1, and for some
> reason, the compact flash memory cards I've been using (kingston compact
> flash) don't seem to work anymore. These cards were recognized under
> 2.4.0-test10-rmk2-np3, and cardmgr would install the ide driver (that was
> built into the kernel) whenever I inserted a new card. So, I took the same
> ramdisk, created a 2.4.2-rmk1-np1 directory in /lib/modules, and built a new
> kernel. With the new kernel, the ide driver never gets loaded. If I do a
> cardctl status or cardctl ident, I can detect the card, and read some of its
> properties, but I can't mount the device. (By the way, under 2.4.2, the CF
> ethernet card does appear to work fine, so I think I've got PCMCIA
> configured properly). I stepped back to 2.4.1-rmk1-np2, and the card worked
> again. I'm pretty sure the configure options were the same through these
> different kernels. Has anyone experienced anything similar? Does anyone have
> any suggestions? I'm attaching my .config.
Good question. At first I thought this may have been fixed by upgrading
pcmcia-cs. But this doesn't appear to be the case. For some reason, someone
they changed the driver name from ide_cs to ide-cs while making some minor
changes in drivers/ide/ide-cs.c. I've checked the latest pcmcia-cs release,
3.1.25, and it still expects ide_cs for the driver name.
So, unless you're using loadable modules from the pcmcia-cs package itself,
the ide_cs driver contained in the kernel is *_broken_* for the simple fact
that somebody decided to change the name to ide-cs! : ( GRRRR
The attached patch restores the name and operation! : )
> Also, under 2.4.0-test10, intermittently, the kernel would crash
> with an invalid paging request when I inserted the cf card. Is there a
> reason for this? I was using BLOB as a bootloader, and it set the assabet to
> run at 220mhz.
>
> Thanks,
> Ram
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Regards,
George
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