On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:10:44AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

With drive->removable = 0 if I insert a card I get partition tables, it
will then not rescan that in future even if the card changed, because
there is no "media change detect" line, unlike on a floppy.

If I pull the CF adapter out it is fine because you get pcmcia level
hotplug but that is not neccessary for card changing on better designed
adapters or when the CF adapter is on the board itself with a CF slot
exposed to the user.

Interesting - all my CF adapters (and I have several, some cheapo
noname things to some branded ones) are dumb pieces of hardware -
they merely convert the PCMCIA connector to a CF connector, just as
dumb as those 240V mains adapters.

Also, "CF" is just a different form factor of PCMCIA - don't get
mislead by the term "Compact Flash" - you can get "CF" network
cards, serial cards, bluetooth cards, etc as well.  They're exactly
the same as PCMCIA network, serial, bluetooth cards, just in a
smaller package.

If you have a CF adapter which behaves as you describe above, could
you please check what happens as far as PCMCIA goes when you unplug
the CF card - particularly what happens to cardctl status / cardctl
ident ?

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core