2.6.x kernels & PCI-to-PCMCIA bridges [again]

[Russell King]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:33:05PM +0300, jar wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > Komuro did do some further work to fix the driver according to my
> > review comments, complained that it didn't work, and somehow expected
> > me to be able to diagnose it without seeing an updated patch.
> > 
> > There are times when you do wonder if people think you're capable of
> > mind reading or better. ;(
> > 
> > I'll go and prod him again.
> 
> Thanks for your time Russell! I think it's sad if the kernel has no more 
> support this so common pci-pcmcia bridge chip (pd6729) as it did in the 
> 2.4 series via external pcmcia package. The code is almost there so 
> there shouldn't be a lot of work to do?
> 
> For me personally the lack of pd6729 driver causes that I have to live 
> with 2.4 kernel (this is hard because of the other drivers I need will 
> only compile against the 2.6 in the future), change my 100% working 
> hardware or switch to windows. I will try to avoid the latter 
> alternative as long as possible :)

Well, it seems that this is a dead loss, so I guess we're never going
to get the PD6729 driver supported.  Sorry people.

(And please don't raise bug reports for this - because it *isn't* a
bug.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core