Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:08:54 +0100 (BST)

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> The normal built-in IDE driver can obviously driev the hardware. If the
> _only_ thing we did in kernel space was some very simple cardbus logic
> (PCI-only, detect the cardbus chip, query it for devices, and handle the
> special cases that we care about), I bet it wouldn't be more than a few kB
> worth of driver.

For PCMCIA this partly exists. We have this feature (what DOS calls a point
enabler I believe) in the Psion5 palmtop port. Werner Almesberger has much
of this to hand. It also has a generic power management framework which may
be good to adopt.

Alan

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