PCMCIA serial CardBus support vanished in 2.4.3-pre3 and later

Alessandro Suardi (alessandro.suardi@oracle.com)
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:37:36 +0100


Sorry to repost the issue but I got no reply...

2.4.3-pre3 and synced-up versions of the -ac series remove support for
PCMCIA serial CardBus. In drivers/char/pcmcia the Makefile and Config.in
files are modified to exclude serial_cb and the serial_cb.c file itself
is removed by the patch. As a net result, my Xircom modem port becomes
invisible to the kernel and I can't dial out through it.

As a temporary measure I backed out the changes in drivers/char/pcmcia
and my 2.4.3-pre4 kernel seems happy (in fact I am dialing out through
said Xircom modem).

Did I miss some announcement for replacement features for serial_cb or
did a bad patch slip in ?

Thanks & ciao,

--alessandro <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com> <asuardi@uninetcom.it>

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