Re: Support for TI FlashMedia (pci id 104c:8033, 104c:803b) flash card readers

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 05 2006 - 23:48:14 EST


On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:08:46PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:53:35AM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >
> >> Is there no driver in the kernel that already has this design?
> >>
> >
> > Not directly, no. USB-storage handles a wide range of devices like this
> > by virtue of them following the usb storage spec (which is really just
> > scsi).
> >
>
> How about this... We put the main driver in drivers/misc, add a Kconfig
> for it that isn't visible, put the submodules in their respective
> subsystems and set their Kconfigs to select the main module. Does that
> sound like a good solution?

But there is no "subsystem" for a memory card reader, right? That's one
of the problems here :)

I don't know, but misc/ is fine with me unless someone else has a good
idea of where to put it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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