Why are cardbus drivers cbb(4) and pccard(4) still included in GENERIC?

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 10:02:12 UTC 2013


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Andy Farkas <andyf at andyit.com.au> wrote:
>> There's still plenty of laptops that would be crippled if these were
>> removed.
>>
>
> Indeed:
>
> dc0: <Abocom FE2500 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem
> 0x88000000-0x880003ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
>
> -andyf
>

Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting to retire the drivers but to take
them out of the GENERIC kernel config and move them to be loaded as
modules only. Adrian Chadd undestood perfectly what I was after.

-Kimmo


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