Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel | Date | 27 May 1999 01:13:36 GMT |
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In article <19990524204409.A164@bug.ucw.cz>, Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> wrote: > >`subj` is my 2.3 wish. Having pcmcia support outside of standard >kernel makes pcmcia drivers second-class citizens, which only work >sometimes.
Indeed. I would wish to have at least cardbus support int he default kernel, and eventually it will have to be written - the external pcmcia support indeed relegates it to second-class citizen support. And cardbus is much better done and defined than the original pcmcia anyway, and is what all modern laptops use.
However, I'm not going to just use the pcmcia code as-is, as David Hinds has never been very excited about putting the support in the kernel. And I do believe that for the old-style pcmcia stuff the current approach is the right one anyway due to the ugly details. But if somebody were to start up a cardbus driver system, I wouldn't be unhappy...
Linus
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