Re: pre*-6 breaks PCMCIA again
David Hinds (dhinds@zen.stanford.edu)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:53:27 -0800
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:56:38PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
> Well the result of this is that for other architectures such as the
> m68k; some people (can't remember the names off hand, sorry) have
> started to implement driver for PCMCIA devices (mainly NE2K Ethernet
> and 16c550 serial) totally independant of the existing PCMCIA
> subsystem. Some of these drivers have now been included into the
> standard kernel.
>
> I asume this is because these guys don't know about the current PCMCIA
> code and where to get it. IMHO keeping PCMCIA out of the kernel is a
> pain and I would prefer to see it go in together with the rest of the
> strange bus architectures we support these days.
I have noticed the m68k "net/apne" driver. I don't know its history,
but they're certainly aware of my package, because they've apparently
copied parts of my header files (without attribution). The driver
appears to support only a small subset of NE2000 compatible PCMCIA
cards (maybe a subset of one).
As for other architectures, my PCMCIA package is already being used on
the alpha and powerpc platforms.
-- Dave
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