From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:45:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:45:54 -0500 Received: from a.smtp-out.sonic.net ([208.201.224.38]:29859 "HELO a.smtp-out.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:45:53 -0500 X-envelope-info: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:56:20 -0800 From: David Hinds To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fallback to PCI IRQs for TI bridges Message-ID: <20030303125620.A26220@sonic.net> References: <20030301093814.A6700@sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:26:54PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I'm not aware of the "political" situation around PCMCIA drivers, but I > think it's sad that the kernel drivers are pushed (e.g. by Red Hat) in the > hope that they will get more visibility and will be improved, but the > people who have the best expertize still use pcmcia-cs drivers and work on > improving them. I don't think it is a political issue. I think the kernel drivers should be promoted and I've encourated other distributions to go that route as well. And I hope that this leads to better drivers. I do maintenance work on the pcmcia-cs drivers but don't intend to add any new functionality. I've tried to update the kernel tree with fixes from individual PCMCIA client drivers in the pcmcia-cs package. The divergence of the core modules is pretty large, though, so it is not a simple "diff", and I know I've missed things. I do not have time to be a more active maintainer these days, either of pcmcia-cs or of the kernel PCMCIA drivers. > I think it CONFIG_ISA is meant to be that. The "ISA support" is so > trivial from the kernel perspective, that the line between systems with > and without ISA is somewhat blurred. I don't really know what the scope of CONFIG_ISA should be. I think now it is mainly used to show or hide drivers for ISA cards, rather than describing a system capability. -- Dave