Alan Cox writes: > Akkana Peck <akkana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've been having problems getting PCMCIA IDE to work on my Vaio > > laptop on recent kernels (I've been working most with 2.6.23.1 and > > .8). I've been hesitant to report it as a kernel bug because it > > may very well be a problem with my .config parameters -- the CDROM > > Does the same happen if you disable the tickless NOHZ kernel option ? Yes, same behavior without tickless. Also, I had said that I didn't get the soft lockup if CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y and I think that's true, but with tickless disabled I get the soft lockup regardless of the IRQ-sharing setting. ...Akkana - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html