On Mon, Feb 27, 2023, at 20:07, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
I assume these CAN bus PCMCIA interfaces won't work after your patch
set, right?
Correct, the patch series in its current form breaks this since
your laptop is cardbus compatible. The options I can see are:
- abandon my series and keep everything unchanged, possibly removing
some of the pcmcia drivers that Dominik identified as candidates
- decide on a future timeline for when you are comfortable with
discontinuing this setup and require any CAN users with cardbus
laptops to move to USB or cardbus CAN adapters, apply the series
then
- duplicate the yenta_socket driver to have two variants of that,
require the user to choose between the cardbus and the pcmcia
variant depending on what card is going to be used.
Can you give more background on who is using the EMS PCMCIA card?
I.e. are there reasons to use this device on modern kernels with
machines that could also support the USB, expresscard or cardbus
variants, or are you likely the only one doing this for the
purpose of maintaining the driver?