Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

[David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:00:24AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> So there's enough information in the real CIS to identify the offending 
> device? What problems are fixed by the replacement CIS structures? Missing 
> resources &c? Anything which couldn't be overloaded by a driver in its 
> probe() routine before attempting to activate the card?

Problems like cards that say they are parallel port devices when they
are serial cards, cards that say they are serial devices when they are
multifunction ethernet/modem cards, and cards that have malformed data
structures that can't be interpreted at all.

Nothing that can't be overloaded in a driver.  But things that were
sufficiently ugly that I did not want to write special case code with
lots of hard-wired information.

I think it may also be more space-efficient to code this information
in CIS structures than to write special case code to handle all the
bugs.

-- Dave

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