On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 18:20, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-05-11 at 18:24, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > If pcmcia hardware disappears on you, you _really_ don't want to be
> > bitbanging its ports.
PCMCIA has varying pin length for the CD pins and hence gives you a few
milliseconds of warning before the card is _actually_ disconnected.
After that period of time has elapsed and the card is actually gone, you
_really_ don't want to be bitbanging its ports.
> Its quite safe to do so.
Not on all platforms.
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