Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: oops [CardBus Watcher]

# Re: oops [CardBus Watcher]

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Sun, 04 Jun 2000 16:43:10 -0400

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"Garst R. Reese" wrote:
>
> PCMCIA compiled as module, 2.4.0test1-ac7
> Pentium-MMX
> gcc-2.9.5-2
> In rc.pcmcia I have
> modprobe pci_socket
> insmod ds
> as part of the start script,
> then
> rmmod ds
> modprobe -r pci_socket
> as part of the stop script.
> When I run rc.pcmcia stop, I get an oops, but the addresses or not in
> System.map. The process is CardBus Watcher. I figure I some how have to
> kill it's pid before removing the modules. If so, how do I do that?
> The oops appears to be harmless.

Known bug, modular pcmcia is broken, due to unload (or lack thereof) of
the CardBus Watch kernel thread. Linus has posted several suggestions,
so it just takes someone to stand up and do the work. I'll probably fix
right before 2.4.0 if noone does step up (please do... my task list is
long enough).

Jeff

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