From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965330AbXCBJkc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:40:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965347AbXCBJkc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:40:32 -0500 Received: from 85.8.24.16.se.wasadata.net ([85.8.24.16]:37593 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965330AbXCBJkb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:40:31 -0500 Message-ID: <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:41:18 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Werner LEMBERG CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? References: <20070302.102351.146595518.wl@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302.102351.146595518.wl@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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