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Hi, |
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Starting from linux-2.6.13-rc1 the PCMCIA subsystem has been patched to |
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exports certain internals to sysfs, which allows using hotplug for |
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handling insertion/ejection of 16bit PCMCIA cards. |
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For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be |
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added to portage. Therefore, a new virtual/pcmcia (which will default to |
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sys-apps/pcmcia-cs in base/virtuals for now) will be added as well. |
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I have had sys-apps/pcmciautils in my portage overlay [2] for quite a |
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while now, just waiting for the needed functionality to be merged into |
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Linus' tree. |
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The linux-mod eclass will be changed to depend on virtual/pcmcia for |
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pcmcia support. Future ebuilds that just need a PCMCIA card manager |
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should depend on virtual/pcmcia as well. |
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If anybody has any objections and/or questions to this new virtual, |
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please drop me an e-mail. |
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Sincerely, |
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Brix |
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[1]: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ |
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[2]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/overlay/ |
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> |
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