From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422995AbXCBJ6i (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:58:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422996AbXCBJ6i (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:58:38 -0500 Received: from cacti.profiwh.com ([85.93.165.66]:46680 "EHLO cacti.profiwh.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422995AbXCBJ6h (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:58:37 -0500 Message-ID: <45E7F55F.6090807@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:58:55 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Ossman Cc: Werner LEMBERG , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? References: <20070302.102351.146595518.wl@gnu.org> <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E Hnus is an alias for /dev/null