Re: PCMCIA 2.5.X sleeping from illegal context

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 12 May 2003 19:36:49 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 13 May 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 00:31, Russell King wrote:
> > > Does this still happen with all the patches Russell King posted
> > > that everyone else is ignoring ?
> >
> > I'm in the process of putting the patch in my outgoing patch queue
> > for Linus, otherwise we're not going to make any forward progress.
>
> Well, your patches do work pretty well for me... I've been playing
> extensively with PCMCIA today, mainly with my 3Com CardBus NIC which has
> really strange TX slowdown problems, by plugging and unplugging it over
> and over again, loading and unloading the 3c59x.ko module and so on. So
> at least, we're making some progress.

Could somebody please change the error message? Although everybody
seems to want to be a lawyer, even lawyers don't make law. Certainly
Software Engineers don't. The correct word is 'invalid', not 'illegal'.
Yes, I know there is a 30-year history of the use of that word in
Unix, but it's wrong. Only governments make law.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.

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