From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpjhC-00026G-Um for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:26:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j659P9Zo029758; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:25:09 GMT Received: from ctb-mesg1.saix.net (ctb-mesg1.saix.net [196.25.240.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j659N9gL027084 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:23:10 GMT Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-200-204.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.200.204]) by ctb-mesg1.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E467D77 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:23:47 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9693A2482 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:32:55 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08779-18 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:32:50 +0200 (SAST) Received: from lycan.lan (lycan.lan [192.168.0.5]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648863A247B for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:32:50 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/pcmcia From: Martin Schlemmer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1120036736.12818.11.camel@sponge.fungus> References: <1120036736.12818.11.camel@sponge.fungus> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UmXQySXzNprAxOkwAYfg" Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:25:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1120555513.8314.5.camel@lycan.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org X-Archives-Salt: 31cb0e47-6e71-4b10-bc6b-fa6396b3b123 X-Archives-Hash: c8eec209545d3091464106508e029c4a --=-UmXQySXzNprAxOkwAYfg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:18 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > If anybody has any objections and/or questions to this new virtual, > please drop me an e-mail. >=20 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, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-UmXQySXzNprAxOkwAYfg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCylH5qburzKaJYLYRAoOnAJ4viRfj9QGcK0QqXRfrU1hKJZ6KbwCgiI4n STTMozyWkL3ifSuwaaLmNUE= =tte/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UmXQySXzNprAxOkwAYfg-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list