IRQ problem with PCMCIA

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On 8/22/05, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sul, 2005-08-21 at 15:19 -0700, David Hinds wrote
> > One caveat: I'm not sure if CardBus IDE devices are working under
> > Linux??  I'd think they should work with 2.6, but don't actually know
> > that for a fact.

CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with
hotplug support (work in progress).

> They work with some patches to the core IDE code I did, but I've given

Alan has been living in his own reality for some time:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/2/123

> up ever getting those into the kernel. Please wait instead for the new
> SATA/ATA layer to develop hotplug support.

This is just a FUD to discourage people from working on IDE drivers.
Alan is doing this on purpose and doesn't really want to improve things.

Bartlomiej