On Feb 1,  6:56pm, parnoux@orli.com (Patrick Arnoux) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: PCMCIA and 1.1 -current

| > >Nothing else appears pcmcia aware yet, so the above does not seem too
| > >far out - just a bit messy.
| > 
| > Yes, this is the status of things. When I added 3c590 support, I decided
| > to leave the pcmcia bits in, since they don't hurt anything.
| > 
| > The pcmcia probe/attach/detach code should and will change before the the
| > rest of the pcmcia framework is committed.
| 
| Could you possibly let me know if the intent is to have a design where
| none of the drivers are aware or care if the hardware is PCMCIA based ?.
| Also, do you know who are some of the people working on this ? There seems
| to be a lot of PCMCIA efforts around, and it might be a "Good Thing" (TM)
| to aggregate same.

There is going to be a discussion about it in tech.kern. I have been
trying to keep in touch with people who have done pcmcia work. Stefan
Grefen's code seems to be the best candidate because it is the most
machine independent one, but its configuration model is wrong.

christos