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

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> > 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.

So David -- were you (indirectly) agreeing with much of what
I had said about Cardbus direction?  Specifically:

>>> I think the plan of record for 2.4 is to make hotplug handle cardbus
>>> and pcmcia_cs/cardmgr handle pcmcia.  If anyone thinks it's
>>> something else, please speak up!

Given that patch of yours, and working PCI hotplug support,
what else do you think is needed to make Cardbus support
be as functional as you've gotten PCMCIA to be?  Testing
for sure, and I suspect at least a few more items on that list
of yours.  "PCI eject" functionality comes to mind too, and
maybe supporting hotplug in a few layers above hotplug.

(This isn't a recap of that "PCMCIA hotplug" discussion;
it should be a truncated version, since the PCI drivers are
already converted to handle PCI hotplug ... )

- Dave



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