Re: [bug 2.5.69] xirc2ps_cs, irq 3: nobody cared, shutdown hangs

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 17:08:27 EST


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.

-- 
dwmw2

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