Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:53:23 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: henrik@brixandersen.dk Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ejecting PCMCIA/CardBus cards under -CURRENT Message-ID: <20070512.125323.-1303461480.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070512162447.GA97726@tirith.brixandersen.dk> References: <20070511220314.GA86971@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <20070511.164120.1324584379.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070512162447.GA97726@tirith.brixandersen.dk>
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Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk> writes:
: Hi,
:
: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:41:20PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > No. It won't. Why does that matter? There's no problems that I'm
: > aware of doing this (apart from not unmounting disks)...
:
: I see - but we used to have a userland tool (pccardc(8)) which could
: control the slot power?
Yes. We used to.
: Linux and Windows XP also have means of controlling PC Card slot
: power. Perhaps I should look into adding a sysctl for controlling the
: power state of a given pccard slot.
:
: This feature would also allow powering down a card without removing it
: from the slot.
It would be useful.
Warner
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