Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:49:08 -0800 | From | Miles Lane <> | Subject | Re: Prerelease kernel will not hotplug a USB host-controller when it is inserted into a Cardbus slot. |
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David Brownell wrote:
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> The root cause seems to be the Cardbus/PCI hotplug invocation not > happening for you.
Yep.
> Was this with or without the "pcmcia_cs" package installed? My > own take on it is that 2.4 _should_ hotplug that controller > just fine if "pcmcia_cs" isn't installed. Otherwise, I'd be > pleasantly surprised to know it works properly.
You are more or less correct. I've looked a little bit at the source and now understand a little bit better. It turns out that parts of the Cardbus code in the kernel source includes code from the pcmcia_cs package. The "cs:" messages in the log are generated by this code. I *think* this code reads configuration files from /etc/pcmcia, but I haven't found the place in the code that does it. Anyhow, these messages:
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x280-0x28f 0x378-0x37f 0x3a0-0x3a7 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
change when I modify /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. The /etc/pcmcia/config* files get installed by the pcmcia_cs package, so even when I am only using the cardbus functionality, there seems to be some need to pcmcia_cs, since the config.opts file contains "magic" good defaults numbers for safe irqs, ports and memory ranges.
As I have already discussed with David Brownell, there is huge a problem getting a usable cardbus solution with the current pcmcia_cs package. Even when I tell it I am using a 2.4.0 kernel and that I want to use the development kernel's drivers, it maps loads of device IDs to the pcmcia_cs drivers which don't exist in this configuration! For example, it maps the 3c575 device ID to 3c575_cb instead of 3c59x.
>> For the Cardbus hotplug event, is it expected that the hotplug >> debug info would be dumped after the insert event is processed >> and the required driver is loaded? > > > No -- you were seeing the USB hotplug event, not the cardbus one. > > Plugging a cardbus OHCI into your machine should cause two hotplug > events ... first for PCI, eventually modprobing "usb-ohci", and > then as that module initializes you'll get a second one for USB, > reporting a new (root) hub. > > So you should see an invocation "arguments (pci) env (...)" > followed by "arguments (usb) env (...)"; but you reported the > second one.
Well, I have no idea why the "arguments (pci) env (...)" message wasn't emitted. I do know that with the test12-pre5 kernel I get working hotplug for the BusPort Mobile.
Thanks for all your help!
Miles
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