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RE: A patch for Assabet PCMCIA driver to work with PRETEC
- To: "'I-Jui Sung'" <ijsung at csie dot nctu dot edu dot tw>,"'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] A patch for Assabet PCMCIA driver to work with PRETEC
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:46:33 -0600
- Cc: "'Gary Thomas'" <gthomas at redhat dot com>,"'eCos mailing list'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
I agree with both of you. It's an acceptable work around because it
won't change the way the driver works.
I wish mine would read something other than 0xff from the CIS! :(
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> I-Jui Sung
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:56 PM
> To: Jonathan Larmour; Trenton D. Adams
> Cc: 'Gary Thomas'; 'eCos mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] A patch for Assabet PCMCIA driver to
> work with PRETEC
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour@redhat.com>
> To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams@extremeeng.com>
> Cc: "'Gary Thomas'" <gthomas@redhat.com>; "'I-Jui Sung'"
> <ijsung@csie.nctu.edu.tw>; "'eCos mailing list'"
> <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 1:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] A patch for Assabet PCMCIA driver to
> work with PRETEC
>
>
> > "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> <deleted>
> > > But what if it's only a problem with his card, and not
> the PRETEC
> > > card in general?
>
> Maybe Trenton is right, though I can't get another
> PRETEC card to verify it.
> My card might be the last one in the whole 3C mall
> around my place. :-)
>
> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken, the choice of field to query is arbitrary.
> > However it seems Gary did already apply the change internally (I
> > assumed he hadn't). In the absence of better information,
> just trust
> > the contributor!
>
> I think what I changed is just the way to detect the
> card, so it should not
> affect the normal operation of other cards. (I've said
> it's a workaround
> :-)
> >
> > Although one thing occurred to me that I wondered about
> that I may as
> > well
> > ask: whether I-Jui tried increasing the delay before the
> read to see if
> > that made a difference.
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I did before trying to change the
> querying field . (But I soon gave up this way when I found
> that a 1000 ms delay still changes nothing :-)
>
>
>