On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 10:12 +0200, Klaus Klein wrote:
> I guess it's now on me to apologize for a late response. ;-)
>
> I today installed and tested 2.6.32 and the problem seems not to exist with this version.
>
> Unfortunately not all installed software works with this kernel as it comes out of the box (e.g. NFS, nVidia, etc.)
>
> Is there a chance to get a fix for 2.6.26 ?
I looked through the changes to the driver and the PCMCIA/CardBus code
between 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 (as you said this was also fixed in Ubuntu's
2.6.27) and cannot see any changes that look like they could have fixed
this. I also looked through driver changes between 2.6.18 and 2.6.26
and did not see anything that looked like it could have caused the bug.
If we cannot identify a specific change that fixes this then there is no
way we can fix 2.6.26.
If you're comfortable with rebuilding the kernel and have the time to
spare, you could try to identify at what point the driver broke between
2.6.18 and 2.6.26, using git's bisect facility:
sudo apt-get install git-core
(read the git-bisect manual page)
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
cd linux-2.6
git bisect start v2.6.26 v2.6.18
cp /boot/config-2.6.26-2-686 .config
make oldconfig </dev/null
make
...
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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