Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 17:47:29 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, David Hinds wrote:
>
> > The i82365 and tcic drivers in the 2.4 tree have not been converted to
> > use the thread stuff; as far as I know, the yenta driver is the only
> > socket driver that works at all in 2.4.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:52:30PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > OK. I take it you support my proposed change?
> > > Can you review this patch for i82365.c?
> >
> > It looks reasonable and straighforward to me.
>
> Cool. Linus, please could you apply this patch. If the fact that i82365
> and tcic are broken in 2.4 isn't on Ted's critical list, then I think it
> probably ought to have been - and this should fix it.

It's purposefully not on Ted's critical list, the official line is "use
pcmcia_cs external package" if you need i82365 or tcic instead of yenta
AFAIK. However... fixing things and being able to support all pcmcia
and cardbus adapters would be wonderful.

drivers/pcmcia/Config.in:
> #tristate 'PCMCIA/CardBus support' CONFIG_PCMCIA
> #if [ "$CONFIG_PCMCIA" != "n" ]; then
> # if [ "$CONFIG_PCI" != "n" ]; then
> # bool ' CardBus support' CONFIG_CARDBUS
> # fi
> # bool ' i82365 compatible bridge support' CONFIG_I82365
> # bool ' Databook TCIC host bridge support' CONFIG_TCIC
> #fi

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