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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:16:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: PCMCIA serial CardBus support vanished in 2.4.3-pre3 and later
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
>  2.4.3-pre3 and synced-up versions of the -ac series remove support for
>  PCMCIA serial CardBus. In drivers/char/pcmcia the Makefile and Config.in
>  files are modified to exclude serial_cb and the serial_cb.c file itself
>  is removed by the patch. As a net result, my Xircom modem port becomes
>  invisible to the kernel and I can't dial out through it.

The regular serial.c should handle it natively. Just make sure you have
CONFIG_SERIAL enabled, along with hotplugging support etc.

		Linus

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