From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274982AbTHRTev (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274990AbTHRTev (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:51 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:54691 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274982AbTHRTet (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:49 -0400 From: Rob Landley Reply-To: rob@landley.net To: Russell King Subject: Re: Compiling cardbus devices monolithic doesn't work? Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200308172158.34498.rob@landley.net> <20030818084411.A26743@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030818084411.A26743@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308181534.37586.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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"... Rob