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From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:41:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070302.102351.146595518.wl@gnu.org>

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.

Rgds
-- 
     -- Pierre Ossman

  Linux kernel, MMC maintainer        http://www.kernel.org
  PulseAudio, core developer          http://pulseaudio.org
  rdesktop, core developer          http://www.rdesktop.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-02  9:23 Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? Werner LEMBERG
2007-03-02  9:41 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2007-03-02  9:58   ` Jiri Slaby
2007-03-02 12:11   ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-02 12:21   ` Alan
2007-03-02 12:15     ` Matthew Garrett

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