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From: Andrew McRae <andrew@mega.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Configuring driver added via LKM
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Terry Lambert writes:
>I think in general that the features that make a driver a good
>"plug-n-play" citizen will do the same for making it a good LKM
>citizen;

I am in the midst of hacking the PCMCIA stuff to remove it from
the ISA model and place it under a separate bus. Meantime I am
redoing the kernel interface to the drivers to allow a much
better disconnect and reconnect scheme. The benefit of
doing this under PCMCIA is that you can have a card manager
that controls this, and the `schedule for disconnect' is
someone removing a card.

A paper about it is on dmssyd.syd.dms.csiro.au under /pri/mcrae
It is a little light on details, but gives the general direction
I am going.

Cheers,
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