Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:43:08 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Compiling cardbus devices monolithic doesn't work? |
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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).
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