From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:36:03 +0000 Subject: Re: xircom cbem56g-100 support 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 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 _______________________________________________ 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