Re: PATCH 2.4.0.4.6: workaround for BUG() in slab.c

From: Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 13:47:26 EDT

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    On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:28:15PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
    > Linus Torvalds writes:
    > > [ Except this only works with the yenta.c driver - the other low-level
    > > drivers don't do this. I'm inclined to remove the other low-level
    > > drivers from the kernel, and just say that the in-kernel pcmcia
    > > support only supports cardbus controllers until somebody decides to
    > > port them to use kernel threads. Which should be fairly easy, but
    > > requires testing. ]
    >
    > Please, no, let's not change again. Let's get things fixed. Put out a
    > CFV. I really would like to have 2.4 working properly on my laptop,
    > with it's mix of CardBus and older PCMCIA cards.

    I guess you could use dhinds' pcmcia-cs package...

    but i agree, i'd prefer to use 2.4 as-is and then fix the PCIC driver
    properly in 2.5... 

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