Regarding Automatic loading of PCMCIA client driver

[kaustav.majumdar at wipro.com]

Hi Dominik,
Thank you for your reply.... Another issue regarding power management of
a PCMCIA device I want to clarify.

I had seen from the 2.6 PCMCIA mini- Howto that cardctl suspend is
equivalent to:
echo -n "3" > /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket*/device/power/state

Now state 3 means "Suspend to RAM", so in that case my understanding is
that the device will be powered off. I had also experimented with a
D-Link WLAN card and there on cardctl suspend the LED does not glow.
I want to verify whether this understanding is right or not? And I think
if the device will be powered off then we can safely release the
configuration.

Secondly, what if I will give "1" in place of "3" that is if I will go
for "Standby" state..... then what should be the behavior of the device?
In that case will a CS_EVENT_PM_SUSPEND come??? Or something else will
happen?

Looking forward to your reply

Thank you,
With Regards,
Kaustav Majumdar


-----Original Message-----
From: Dominik Brodowski [mailto:linux at dominikbrodowski.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:50 AM
To: Kaustav Majumdar (WT01 - Semiconductors & Consumer Electronics)
Cc: linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Regarding Automatic loading of PCMCIA client driver

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:10:43AM +0530, kaustav.majumdar at wipro.com
wrote:
> I had posted a query in this regard a few days ago..... but it seems
had
> gone unnoticed.....
University examinations are near...

> I want to know that if I want to load the PCMCIA client drivers when
the
> PC Card will be inserted in the slot
> then what are the things I have to do?
Kernel 2.6.? Just add the appropriate PCMCIA_DEVICE_ information (see
Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt ) to the .id_table entry in struct
pcmcia_driver, and use recent udev, pcmciautils and module-init-tools.
Then
all should work well :-)

Thanks,
	Dominik


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