From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 30 09:21:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26216 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26211 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA21616; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:20:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA04651; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:20:52 -0600 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:20:52 -0600 Message-Id: <199809301620.KAA04651@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: eisele@vector-informatik.de Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard driver question In-Reply-To: <199809300622.IAA28286@dtag-gate.vector-informatik.de> References: <199809290835.KAA10140@dtag-gate.vector-informatik.de> <199809291626.KAA23629@mt.sri.com> <199809300622.IAA28286@dtag-gate.vector-informatik.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > [ moved to -mobile ] > > > > > could anyone please tell me why the function pccard_remove_driver > > > in pccard.c is deactivated in 2.2.7 ? > > > > Because no-one called in the standard distribution, hence the name > > 'unused'. It has also not been tested in a long time, so it might not > > work (but then again, it might...). :) > > Is it possible to activate the function again in further releases ? > > I have played around with the pccardd and have done some small > modifications: I have introduced a new keword 'preconfig' for > pccard.conf witch make it possible to execute a command before > the driver is configured. So it is possible to execute a modload > command when the card is inserted and a modunload when the card > is removed. > > What do think about it ? For my pccard driver it works fine. Would you like to submit your driver, then the stock release would have a reason for the function existing. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message