From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel pcmcia
Date: 23 Sep 2001 18:55:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11ykx8l10.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BAE24F4.4489CC4A@nyc.rr.com> <12891.1001275605@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <12891.1001275605@redhat.com>
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
> weber@nyc.rr.com said:
> > Is cardmgr absolutely necessary? I don't use modules, so I don't
> > really understand what cardmgr does that can't be done by the kernel
> > at boot. -
>
> Aside from loading modules, it also performs the matching between devices
> and drivers - rather than drivers registering a list of the devices they're
> capable of driving, as with other bus types, cardmgr is required to 'bind'
> devices to drivers.
>
> The whole lot wants rewriting. I've been looking at it but don't have
> anything that even compiles.
I looked a while ago and the exported driver interfaces don't look to
bad but the code was next to impossible to follow.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-24 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-23 18:07 kernel pcmcia John Weber
2001-09-23 20:06 ` David Woodhouse
2001-09-24 0:55 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-09-27 14:27 ` Pavel Machek
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2001-10-25 16:54 Kernel PCMCIA John Weber
2001-10-25 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25 17:15 ` Alan Cox
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