Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:09:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder |
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On 6 Oct 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > My PCMCIA network card no longer works. During boot, I see this > message: > > ds: no socket drivers loaded > > It worked in 2.5.39. Also this patch helps, although I don't > understand why it is now needed:
The PCMCIA code does initializations in the wrong order, and asynchronously (ie from multiple different threads). And init_pcmcia_ds() really depends on the actual low-level drivers having had time to register, since the PCMCIA code never had any sane way to inform the DS layer that a new client driver had registered.
Thus the delay by init_pcmcia_ds() - to give time for drivers to initialize. And the yenta driver needs some time.. That time apparently went up a bit, probably due to the tq/work changes.
The _right_ thing to do is to not have init_pcmcia_ds() depend on low-level drivers being initialized, but instead do that DS thing _early_, and then when each driver initializes it would tell the DS layer. But that's not how the PCMCIA code was organized..
Linus
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