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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "John W. Linville" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] ssb: do not read SPROM if it does not exist
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On Wednesday 31 March 2010 21:39:35 John W. Linville wrote:
> However I have no idea what PCMCIA tuples are. Do we need similar check for
> some PCMCIA code?

The PCMCIA subsystem fetches the data for us through some mechanism similar
to PCI config space and provides the data via tuples.
See ssb/pcmcia.c -> ssb_pcmcia_get_invariants()

For now I would not recommend touching that code unless we have a device
that needs it.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.