new_id for pcmcia_cs drivers

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:46:10PM +0200, Christian Zoz wrote:
> since driver association is now hardcoded in the druver source it
> would be very convenient to have a new_id sysfs attribute like pci
> drivers have. I have two questions to you:
> 
> Did somebody plan to add new_id or maybe has already spent time in
> this?

As far as I know, no.

> What format of the new_id string would you prefer? My suggestion is
> to use the same order of fields as in the MODALIAS string plus a
> possible cisfile name:
>     manf card func mfunc pfunc prod1 prod2 prod3 prod4 cisfile
> What do you think about that?

Sounds good.

> BTW: I will add some documentaton to the pcmciautils if nobody else
> already has started doing this.

Excellent. Except the very limited doucmentation at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html and inside
the pcmciautils sources, there is no other documentation yet.

Thanks,
	Dominik