Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 08 Apr 2003 19:01:39 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHES 2.5.67] PCMCIA hotplugging, in-kernel-matching and depmod support |
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Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:20:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>Will we see pcmcia id lists making their way into low-level drivers?
> In the drivers I converted (~20 or so...) this is done already. You can > find them at http://www.brodo.de/pcmcia/ , for example the network drivers > (all of them should be converted) at > http://www.brodo.de/pcmcia/pcmcia-2.5.67-drivers_network . > > For example, a part of pcnet_cs.c looks like this now: > > static struct pcmcia_device_id pcnet_ids[] = { > { PCMCIA_DEVICE_VERS1("2412LAN", 0x67f236ab) }, > { PCMCIA_DEVICE_VERS12("ACCTON", "EN2212", 0xdfc6b5b2, 0xcb112a11) }, > ... > { PCMCIA_MFC_DEVICE_MANF_CARD(0, 0x0105, 0xea15) }, > { }, > }; > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pcmcia, pcnet_ids);
Very cool...
> As strings can't be passed to userspace in file2alias.c, I've chosen the > crc32 value of the string as the matching identifier for the userspace > hotplug script.
This sounds like a problem to be solved, not worked around... the source should have the strings presented directly, and I'm sure a creative and smart person such as yourself can conceive of at least one... ;-)
Jeff
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