Re: xircom cbem56g-100 support

[<beldridg@best.com>]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Brownell wrote:

> Workaround:  comment it out of that blacklist.  Anyone know how long
> that "#if 0" has been there?  I'll putback a fix to the blacklist, but
> that's the sort of fix that can benefit from a kernel version number.

interesting, that was actually the first thing i tried and it didn't help
and i thought i did a stop/start of hotplug, but apparently not.

it now works.

another quick question:

this is a multifuntion card and hotplug loads the network driver, but is
hotplug or cardmgr responsible for loading the serial driver (esp. since
i'm testing the in-kernel pcmcia drivers and that means just loading the
regular serial.o module)?


if it is cardmgr, how would it be configured? something like:

  device "kernel_serial"
    class "serial" module "kernel/drivers/char/serial.o"

  card "Xircom CBEM56G-100 CardBus 10/100 Ethernet + 56K Modem"
    version "Xircom", "*", "CBEM56G", "*"
    # bind "tulip_cb" to 0, "serial_cb" to 1
    bind "kernel_serial" to 1


(also i guess remove the network binding now that hotplug does it)?


and finally, there seems to be a disadvantage of hotplug at this point:

with pcmcia-cs, if you tried to do a cardctl eject when the interface was
still UP it would return a "ioctl(): Device or resource busy." with
hotplug, since cardmgr doesn't do the configuration, you can eject a card
that still has a live interface. i know people should know better. does
hotplug have functionality similar to "unconfigure and remove?"

-
brett



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