IRQ problem with PCMCIA

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-08-22 at 11:25 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with
> hotplug support (work in progress).

"work in progress". Yes because I submitted working IDE cardbus hotplug
support, and Mark Lord submitted a Delkin driver both of which worked
months ago rather nicely and neither of which hit the Bartlomiej stone
wall and never got in and are now stale patches.

> > 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.

Its a realistic assessment based upon over ten years working on the
Linux kernel. I do not believe you are capable of fixing the old IDE
code. But don't take that personally I am sceptical than anyone can fix
the old IDE code.

Alan