Re: OT(?) -- Should the net.agent script cause "ifup lo" to be run?

[David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:23:37PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> This isn't true.  The 2.4.x kernel drivers should handle virtually
> all Cardbus *and* PCMCIA devices.  At least, that's what David
> Hinds told me.  So, if you compile a 2.4.x kernel with Cardbus
> and i82365 and build the necessary drivers, you should be able 
> to load the modules and use your PCMCIA devices.  You'd just
> build pcmcia_cs support in order to get the cardmgr and cardctl
> programs and the various config and opts files.  If you do this,
> then pcmcia_cs shouldn't do any "beeping" during the boot process,
> because all PC Cards will be configured by /sbin/hotplug.

Err no.  2.4.x kernel drivers exist for most of the 16-bit PCMCIA
cards supported by pcmcia-cs.  But they are not hotplug drivers; only
the Cardbus drivers are hotplug aware.  No 16-bit PC Cards are
configured by /sbin/hotplug.

> David Hinds' recent cardmgr releases should already have the 
> work-around built in to not attempt to configure any devices 
> that 2.4.x kernel hotplugging will handle.  NOTE:  This is *not* 
> just for Cardbus PC Cards. 

Yes it is just for CardBus cards.  And it will actually require a
small one-line kernel patch which I haven't submitted yet.

> As a reminder, here is David Hinds list of work items related
> to getting PCMCIA support into the kernel (the recent design
> work done by Adam Richter, Oliver Neukum and others overhauls
> portions of this list):

As far as I know none of the things I listed are done yet.  Is that
not correct?

-- Dave

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