On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:18 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > Starting from linux-2.6.13-rc1 the PCMCIA subsystem has been patched to > exports certain internals to sysfs, which allows using hotplug for > handling insertion/ejection of 16bit PCMCIA cards. > > For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be > added to portage. Therefore, a new virtual/pcmcia (which will default to > sys-apps/pcmcia-cs in base/virtuals for now) will be added as well. > > I have had sys-apps/pcmciautils in my portage overlay [2] for quite a > while now, just waiting for the needed functionality to be merged into > Linus' tree. > > The linux-mod eclass will be changed to depend on virtual/pcmcia for > pcmcia support. Future ebuilds that just need a PCMCIA card manager > should depend on virtual/pcmcia as well. > > If anybody has any objections and/or questions to this new virtual, > please drop me an e-mail. >
A bit late I know, but just for interest sake .. virtuals is usually used when more than one package usually provides the same compatible api/tool ... which basically means pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils do the same thing and cannot be installed together ? Sorry if my non-pcmcia cluedup-ness shows ... Thanks, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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