From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Subject: Is the CardBus early-attachment flag still necessary?
Date: 27 Jan 2001 21:41:29 -0500
Message-ID: <mtuk87g2yau.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>

 > While doing a little textual cleanup on the cardbus(4) man page, I
 > noticed the description of the flag to the cardslot device, which when
 > set causes a device to be attached immediately rather than later, by
 > the event thread. The purpose of this seems to have been allowing the
 > use of card slot devices as root devices.
 > 
 > However, since that was written, we've added a mechanism to permit
 > device threads to attach devices after normal configuration but before
 > root device determination (It even seems to have been written with the
 > CardBus case in mind). Now that that's there, is the flag and
 > associated code still needed?

We can boot from 16-bit pcmcia and CardBus card without this
flag.  This flag still lives in source code only for test
and special purpose.  So the last sentence of INTRODUCTION
part in the cardbus man page should remove.

 > If not, I'd be happy to remove it.

Please do it.  Thank you.
-- 
HAYAKAWA, Koichi