Re: PCMCIA serial CardBus support vanished in 2.4.3-pre3 and later

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2001 - 11:16:04 EST


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.

                Linus

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