On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:12:36PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > I didn't find time enough to do much work on pcmciautils :/ > > Anyway I'd still like to help and I plan to look into the package > further in the next days.
Since we're about to switch to 2.6.15 as the default kernel in Ubuntu, we needed pcmciautils, so I did a very quick packaging job on it, which I'd like to move into Debian as long as I'm not stepping on anyone else's toes: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pcmciautils/ (may have moved to http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pcmciautils/ by the time you read this) However, I've done no real work on transitioning from pcmcia-cs; I simply left pcmcia-cs there and made sure that both pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils could be installed at the same time (which I think is a very good property to have anyway). Further work on this would be useful. I'd be happy to co-maintain this with a team. > The first thing coming to my mind is having a pcmcia-common that does > all the configuration stuff, and puts kernel-version-aware > init/udev/hotplug(?) scripts around, I didn't bother with the hotplug scripts, since pcmciautils can only easily be configured for one of udev or hotplug, and hotplug is going away anyway. As far as I know there's no need for the udev scripts to be kernel-version-aware because if your kernel is too old you simply won't get the uevent. How much of pcmcia-cs do we actually need with pcmciautils? As I understand it, the mappings of device to driver have moved into the kernel. Is it just /etc/pcmcia/config.opts (pcmciautils ships its own, but we need to take care to make pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils coexist here)? > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2005-October/002820.html I can't help thinking that the init script proposed there shouldn't be an init script at all. Wouldn't it be better to write udev rules for this? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
