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Re: [PATCH] PCMCIA network cards + Cardbus



Per Olofsson wrote:
> I have created patches now for ddetect and netcfg which implement
> Cardbus support and proper configuration of PCMCIA network
> interfaces. The latter means that it doesn't create an auto entry for
> PCMCIA cards but lists it in a "mapping hotplug" stanza. The whole
> thing is implemented by a temporary hotplug agent. The module loading
> part for Cardbus devices isn't very nice but I'm not sure how to do it
> otherwise, and besides, we will have to do it differently for 2.6
> kernels anyway.

Hmm, could there be a race between hw-detect registering the hotplug
script, and netcfg reading the list of hotpluggable interfaces?

Other than that, aside from the *ew* factor of having to do it this way,
looks ok to me. Feel free to commit if it works, it's certianly a step
up from what we have now.

-- 
see shy jo

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