From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hinds Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:34:13 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. 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 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel