From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 19 15:13:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100DE14F02 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA75574; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:13:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA29780; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:13:46 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001192313.QAA29780@harmony.village.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards Cc: Wes Peters , Edwin Culp , current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:32 EST." References: Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:13:46 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : Too many drivers require knowledge of specific cards in order to properly : handle 'quirks'. This isn't going to change. While a recompile is : annoying we can be assured that a driver maintainer will only add IDs to a : driver after they have been confirmed to work. With PCCARD, one has to : contend with a certain amount of user fiddling in order to make things : work; this appears to be a source of support load. Well, it isn't as bad as it could be. pccard sometimes include a Function ID which can be used to generically attach to a card. This will work well for modems, but unlikely well for something else. Also, the OEM stuff sometimes are sloppy in that they don't always change the IDs, but do change the CIS string... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message