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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compiling cardbus devices monolithic doesn't work?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:43:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818124308.73bde51c.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308181534.37586.rob@landley.net>

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:37 -0400 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:

| Ahem, second attempt:
| 
| On Monday 18 August 2003 03:44, Russell King wrote:
| 
| > You still need to use cardmgr to bind the driver to the device.
| > It seems to work for me here on SA11x0 platforms, and I'm not aware
| > of it breaking at any point in the 2.5 series.
| >
| > While it is true that Cardbus devices plugged into cardbus slots do
| > not need cardmgr, PCMCIA devices still do.
| 
| The hotplug scripts from RH9 are there and seem happy, I thought cardmgr was 
| called from them.  (The same setup works in 2.4.21, albeit with modules 
| enabled.  I should compile a monolithic 2.4 kernel and see what it does...)
| 
| > > (P.S.  And while I'm at it, what's the relationship between orinoco_cs,
| > > orinoco, and hermes?  The /proc/modules dependency tree thing says
| > > they're using each other in a chain.  Probably true, just a bit odd, I
| > > thought. Couldn't figure out which driver I needed, compiled all three,
| > > and it loaded ALL of them.  Can't complain, the card works under 2.4. 
| > > This is just a random "huh?")
| >
| > IIRC hermes provides the low level interface to the device, orinoco
| > provides the interface between it and the network stack, and orinoco_cs
| > provides a bridge between the PCMCIA subsystem and orinoco.
| 
| Now I'm confused.  I thought the _cs on the end was short for "cardbus"...

I would have guess that it was for Card Services... (a PCMCIA software
component, at least architecturally).

--
~Randy
"Everything is relative."

      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-18  1:58 Compiling cardbus devices monolithic doesn't work? Rob Landley
2003-08-18  7:44 ` Russell King
2003-08-18 19:31   ` Rob Landley
2003-08-18 19:34   ` Rob Landley
2003-08-18 19:43     ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]

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