Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible to get the driver for Texas
> Instrument FlashMedia Cardreaders in the next version of openSUSE. The
> driver is available at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx/
> (Version 0.6 so far) and I tested it on 10.2; it works perfect.On the
> web page it's mentioned that never versions are part of the main
> kernel... but so far, with 2.6.20-rc5 I did not manage to get that thing
> working. (ok: I did not compile an own kernel on my Notebook yet....)

If it's part of 2.6.20 or 21, it will be in 10.3 - and if we forgot to
enable it, please file a bugreport.  We want to reduce the external
kernel patches and would like to have everything in the upstream kernel.

> It would be very nice to get support for many more card readers by this
> driver (TI FM is, as far as I could fine, used in many notebooks, like
> for example the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad z61m)

Then let's really get it into the official Linus kernel,

Andreas
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