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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-laptop@mobilix.org
Subject: Re: internal card reader support
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:21:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041208182134.GB2345@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B74174.3080908@web.de>

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:01:24PM +0000, Felix Dorner wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > 
 > My notebook (hp nx9105) has an integrated 5in1 card-reader. I would 
 > really like to use this with linux.
 > Since I do not think it is supported yet, I d like to know if it might 
 > be possible to write a module or so for this.
 > I am just an average C programmer, but always wanted to dive into kernel 
 > developement. My knowledge on computer architecture is also no more than 
 > basic, so this might be something to really learn a lot...
 > So I start at zero knowledge now. First of course I need to find out if  
 > what I want to do is possible at all.

All of these devices that I've seen use the usb-storage module.
You might need to futz with the scsi_mod module max_luns argument to make it
see all the slots though.

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-08 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08 18:01 internal card reader support Felix Dorner
2004-12-08 18:21 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-12-08 20:28   ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-08 18:50 ` Jurgen Kramer
2004-12-08 19:21 ` David Vrabel
2004-12-14 13:03   ` Felix Dorner
2004-12-14 13:24     ` David Vrabel
2004-12-16 17:27 ` Bill Davidsen

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