multiple devices behind a cardbus bridge (adding magma pci extender support)

["Mark Krischer" <mkrisch@cisco.com>]

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i'm trying to get the magma pci extender to work under linux.  basically,
this device is a bunch of external pci slots which connects to a laptop via
a cardbus pc card.  i've email david hinds, the maintainer of the linux
pcmcia, and he said that currently linux only supports adding a single
device behind a cardbus bridge.  he suggested that i check out the hot plug
stuff, saying you were providing a more generic interface.

(when i plugged the device in on the 2.2 and an early 2.4 kernel, btw, lspic
would detect the cardbus bridge.  i just couldn't see beyond it.)

any assistance on where to begin on this exercise would be greatly
appreciated.

thanks in advance.

--mk


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Mark Krischer
Manager, Software Engineering
Wireless Networking Business Unit, Ethernet Access Group
Cisco Systems
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