Re: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/pcmcia

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:18 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Starting from linux-2.6.13-rc1 the PCMCIA subsystem has been patched to
> exports certain internals to sysfs, which allows using hotplug for
> handling insertion/ejection of 16bit PCMCIA cards.
> 
> For this to work, a new package called pcmciautils [1] will need to be
> added to portage. Therefore, a new virtual/pcmcia (which will default to
> sys-apps/pcmcia-cs in base/virtuals for now) will be added as well.
> 
> I have had sys-apps/pcmciautils in my portage overlay [2] for quite a
> while now, just waiting for the needed functionality to be merged into
> Linus' tree.
> 
> The linux-mod eclass will be changed to depend on virtual/pcmcia for
> pcmcia support. Future ebuilds that just need a PCMCIA card manager
> should depend on virtual/pcmcia as well.
> 
> If anybody has any objections and/or questions to this new virtual,
> please drop me an e-mail.
> 

A bit late I know, but just for interest sake .. virtuals is usually
used when more than one package usually provides the same compatible
api/tool ... which basically means pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils do the same
thing and cannot be installed together ?  Sorry if my non-pcmcia
cluedup-ness shows ...


Thanks,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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