From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272307AbTHRTrE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:47:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272450AbTHRTrE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:47:04 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:41093 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272307AbTHRTrB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:47:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:43:08 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: rob@landley.net Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Compiling cardbus devices monolithic doesn't work? Message-Id: <20030818124308.73bde51c.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200308181534.37586.rob@landley.net> References: <200308172158.34498.rob@landley.net> <20030818084411.A26743@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200308181534.37586.rob@landley.net> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:37 -0400 Rob Landley 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."