Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?

Jiri Slaby
2007-03-02T09:58:38Z

Pierre Ossman napsal(a):
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>>
>> my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop has both a Ricoh R5C822 host adapter (for
>> SD, MMC, etc.) and a Ricoh R5C592 host adapter for memory sticks.
>>
>> While the former works just fine, it seems to me that the latter
>> hasn't any support. Indeed, inserting a Sony MSA-128A memory stick
>> causes no reaction whatsoever. Searching with google, I haven't found
>> anything related to this chip; looking into the kernel source code
>> wasn't successful either.
>>
>> Can you please shed some light on the current situation? I'm using
>> kernel 2.6.20.
>>
>
> Memory stick is completely unsupported. We haven't got any specs for neither the
> the host controllers or the protocol. So I would guess it would be quite some
> time before memorystick is supported directly by Linux.

There is an experimental out-of-the-tree ricoh driver. I don't know if your
reader is supported, you can give it a try and report back. Make sure, you have
backed your data up.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117123096427193&w=2

regards,
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