Re: [PATCHES 2.5.67] PCMCIA hotplugging, in-kernel-matching and depmod support

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:20:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>Will we see pcmcia id lists making their way into low-level drivers?

> In the drivers I converted (~20 or so...) this is done already. You can 
> find them at http://www.brodo.de/pcmcia/ , for example the network drivers
> (all of them should be converted) at
> http://www.brodo.de/pcmcia/pcmcia-2.5.67-drivers_network .
> 
> For example, a part of pcnet_cs.c looks like this now:
> 
> static struct pcmcia_device_id pcnet_ids[] = {
> 	{ PCMCIA_DEVICE_VERS1("2412LAN", 0x67f236ab) },
> 	{ PCMCIA_DEVICE_VERS12("ACCTON", "EN2212", 0xdfc6b5b2, 0xcb112a11) },
> 	...
> 	{ PCMCIA_MFC_DEVICE_MANF_CARD(0, 0x0105, 0xea15) },
> 	{ },
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pcmcia, pcnet_ids);

Very cool...


> As strings can't be passed to userspace in file2alias.c, I've chosen the
> crc32 value of the string as the matching identifier for the userspace
> hotplug script.

This sounds like a problem to be solved, not worked around...  the 
source should have the strings presented directly, and I'm sure a 
creative and smart person such as yourself can conceive of at least 
one... ;-)

	Jeff