Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:32:50 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2005-08-22 at 11:25 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with > hotplug support (work in progress).
"work in progress". Yes because I submitted working IDE cardbus hotplug support, and Mark Lord submitted a Delkin driver both of which worked months ago rather nicely and neither of which hit the Bartlomiej stone wall and never got in and are now stale patches.
> > up ever getting those into the kernel. Please wait instead for the new > > SATA/ATA layer to develop hotplug support. > > This is just a FUD to discourage people from working on IDE drivers. > Alan is doing this on purpose and doesn't really want to improve things.
Its a realistic assessment based upon over ten years working on the Linux kernel. I do not believe you are capable of fixing the old IDE code. But don't take that personally I am sceptical than anyone can fix the old IDE code.
Alan
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