Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

David Hinds (dhinds@lahmed.Stanford.EDU)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:03:06 -0700

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 05:24:46PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote:
>
> I think that the PCMCIA packages suffers from one major problem, the rest
> of these problems are just symptoms of this problem: The PCMCIA package is
> two things that are separate: an enabler daemon and the drivers.
>
> The drivers should be in the kernel and the enabler should be in
> user land.

Errr, I feel like I'm missing something...?

> I see no reason why a computer with a PCMCIA device (net card
> or some such) shouldn't be able to compile in only the net card and
> nothing else from the PCMCIA stuff, allowing the system to automatically
> deal with this one card and nothing else.
>
> Yes you loose hotswap, but who cares, it should still be an option.

If you want point enablers, use DOS. This is such a brain dead
approach, it isn't even worth contemplating.

-- Dave Hinds

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