Subject: Re: pcmcia cards
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/09/2001 15:57:33
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I am interested in patching the pcic/pcmcia source so it logs whenever a
> new pcmcia device is recognized, attached, or configured.

Oh, I see with PCMCIA_VERBOSE it does do some logging.

> I am currently looking at sys/dev/cardbus and sys/dev/pcmcia. Can anyone
> point me to the right direction or share any suggestions for implementing
> this?

I guess I want it to log even withour PCMCIA_VERBOSE. Something simpler
and less detailed. basically, like: "pcmcia1: com3 attached".

> In addition, I'd like to make a userland tool to output information about
> attached and/or configured pcmcia devices. Basically, it would probe the
> bus/cards for this information. Does a tool like this already
> exist? (Before pcmcia was implemented in the kernel, did userland routines
> exist?)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/