Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:56:20 -0800 | From | David Hinds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fallback to PCI IRQs for TI bridges |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:26:54PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I'm not aware of the "political" situation around PCMCIA drivers, but I > think it's sad that the kernel drivers are pushed (e.g. by Red Hat) in the > hope that they will get more visibility and will be improved, but the > people who have the best expertize still use pcmcia-cs drivers and work on > improving them.
I don't think it is a political issue. I think the kernel drivers should be promoted and I've encourated other distributions to go that route as well. And I hope that this leads to better drivers. I do maintenance work on the pcmcia-cs drivers but don't intend to add any new functionality.
I've tried to update the kernel tree with fixes from individual PCMCIA client drivers in the pcmcia-cs package. The divergence of the core modules is pretty large, though, so it is not a simple "diff", and I know I've missed things.
I do not have time to be a more active maintainer these days, either of pcmcia-cs or of the kernel PCMCIA drivers.
> I think it CONFIG_ISA is meant to be that. The "ISA support" is so > trivial from the kernel perspective, that the line between systems with > and without ISA is somewhat blurred.
I don't really know what the scope of CONFIG_ISA should be. I think now it is mainly used to show or hide drivers for ISA cards, rather than describing a system capability.
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