Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:00:53 +0100 | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | Re: PCMCIA serial CardBus support vanished in 2.4.3-pre3 and later |
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Pau wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > > > > > 2.4.3-pre3 and synced-up versions of the -ac series remove support for > > > PCMCIA serial CardBus. In drivers/char/pcmcia the Makefile and Config.in > > > files are modified to exclude serial_cb and the serial_cb.c file itself > > > is removed by the patch. As a net result, my Xircom modem port becomes > > > invisible to the kernel and I can't dial out through it. > > > > The regular serial.c should handle it natively. Just make sure you have > > CONFIG_SERIAL enabled, along with hotplugging support etc. > > In fact it does. I discovered it last weekend when my modem -them same one > than Alessandro's- stopped working. > > Removing "alias char-major-4 serial_cb" from modules.conf did the trick > and the serial driver worked flawlessly. Modules serial got loaded > instead.
Cool... but I have used for a while serial_cb in kernel, not as a module so there is nothing to remove here :) as for Jeff's surprise I have had basically no problem in using kernel PCMCIA stuff in 2.4 series, apart from the usual Tx hang bug of the Xircom.
Built with Jeff's latest patch, rebooting....
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