[opensuse-factory] 2.6.18 kernel add Ti flashmedia driver request
For opensuse 10.2 kernel 2.16.18 , I recomend 2 patches from mm adding support for Ti 21xx/12xx Flashmedia Reader. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm3... http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm3... I've been testing this driver on 2 x86_64 openSUSE 10.1( with self compiled 2.6.18 kernel ) laptops for a week. It works rather stable for me though not full featured. I guess it's better to have this than nothing for Ti card readers. And this is so far what we have. Related Project page: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx btw, YaST identifies the card reader successfully (ROCKS!!) but deals with it in the ide-controller section. Should I request another YaST card reader module in the future? Just a suggestion. Is that possible to implement this feature in openSUSE 10.2 or is it too late, or maybe early because the driver is still beta? Regards, Thruth
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:21:07AM +0800, Truth wrote:
For opensuse 10.2 kernel 2.16.18 , I recomend 2 patches from mm adding support for Ti 21xx/12xx Flashmedia Reader.
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm3...
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm3...
No, we will not take new drivers that are not in mainline for the opensuse kernel, especially as it is so easy for anyone to build a kernel module package outside of the kernel for stuff like the above patches. So I recommend you creating your own package and using and maintaining that. thanks, greg k-h --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Thanks for your reply. I'll do that after 10.2 releases. Regards, Thruth On 10/12/06, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
So I recommend you creating your own package and using and maintaining that.
thanks,
greg k-h
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