From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hinds Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:29:21 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:25:30AM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > I am going to go through pcmcia-cs and work with you to > get a comprehensive mapping of device support to the > kernel drivers. Then, we'll identify all the yet-to-be-ported > drivers and put together some sort of porting strategy. See the README-2.4 file (plus the SUPPORTED.CARDS file) in the current PCMCIA package for this mapping. > Alright. Can you please work with the folks on > linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net to come up with > an acceptable method? Let's open a discussion there on > what some possible "generic" methods might be. It would > make a lot of sense to design something that would have > value across all sorts of drivers, beyond the scope of > PCMCIA/Cardbus. Ideally, this would allow straightforward > solutions to the kind of problem we have now for all driver > modules. I was thinking of just having a new keyword in /etc/pcmcia/config to say that certain drivers are "hotplug", which would mean to ignore those config entries under a 2.4 kernel with hotplug support. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel