From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hinds Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:02:15 +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 11:37:07AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > Not everything nowadays is an i82365, the bridge chip the PCMCIA spec > appears to have been written for. The spec is actually quite general; the virtualized IO and memory access scheme is pretty much straight out of the spec. > I spent a long time trying to avoid this abstraction in the MTD code, > before someone eventually convinced me that unconditional branches really > aren't that difficult for modern CPUs to predict, and the increased > simplicity of the 'map' abstraction was better. Be sure that you need it. I originally liked the idea (otherwise I would not have implemented it), but it has not worked out to be useful so far. -- 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