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Subject: Re: pci cardbus
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In message: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403241230150.63489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
            Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
: 
: 
: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
: 
: > On Thursday 18 March 2004 05:46 pm, n0g0013 wrote:
: > > :	cbb0: <TI1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device \
: > > :			13.0 on pci0
: > > :	cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
: > > :	pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
: > >
: > > however, still no evidence of results from either
: > 
: > Note that the cbb driver and NEWCARD don't use pccardc or pccardd.  You should 
: > just be able to insert a card and if it is supported it will just start 
: > working.
: 
: Of course we do NEED a daemon involved so that it is possible to support
: new cards without recompiling the kernel..
: We certainly need to be able to say 
: "this new card should be treated like that card 'X' that you already
: know about"

We do *NOT* need a daemon involed to implement that.  I have some
crude prototypes that do the right thing.  A simple ioctl to devctl
should be sufficient.

Warner