pcmciautils uses *.cis file for cis-updates?

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Sat Jul 23 15:23:01 EDT 2005


Hi!

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:56:08PM +0300, Jar wrote:
> > Yes, and I do not intend to include them. However, they can be extracted
> > from pcmcia-cs. For example, the pcmcia-cs-cis ebuild does this for gentoo.
> >
> > 	Dominik
> 
> But in pcmcia-check-broken-cis.c there is:
> 
> static struct needs_cis cis_table[] = {
>         /* "D-Link DE-650 Ethernet" */
>         NEEDS_CIS_ENTRY(0x40, 0x0009, "D-Link PC Ethernet Card", "D-Link.dat"),
>         /* "Linksys Ethernet E-CARD PC Ethernet Card */
>         NEEDS_CIS_ENTRY(0x40, 0x0009, "E-CARD PC Ethernet Card", "E-CARD.dat"),
>         { },
> };
> 
> ..so this loads the binary cis (.dat ) file and the module loads the ascii verison
> of cis (.cis) ? Is there a need for both ?

No, we only need the binary form, and we do name it .cis .

Will be fixed in -007.

Thanks,
	Dominik



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