Re: [PATCH] PCMCIA identification strings for cards manufactured by Elan

From: David Hinds
Date: Mon Nov 20 2006 - 12:39:36 EST


Note that the SP230 is a special case (multifunction serial+parallel).
You should look at the CIS for that card; it might not have a serial
function code at all.

-- Dave


On 11/20/06, Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:51:48PM +0000, Tony Olech wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> if I take out the patches to parport_cs and serial_cs,
> leaving in only the patch to "pdaudiocf" our SP230 card
> no longer works - it does not lock up the kernel, admittedly,
> and the serial only card does works, but we would like
> all are cards to just work.

Sounds like function ID matching is broken. Dominik?

> ALSO, I have found no way to force a particular 16-bit
> pcmcia card to be handled by a particular module in a
> similar way to the USB generic serial driver module
> parameter. Have I misssed the obvious? Or is that a
> desirable feature that have been taken out of the David
> Hinds original implementation?

Again, Dominik's area of expertise.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core

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