pcmcia: autoload module pcmcia
Attempt to load the "pcmcia" module for 16-bit PCMCIA cards, so that
PCMCIA support becomes available without pcmciautils/udev userspace
interaction. Based on a suggestion and a patch
Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
but converted it to request_module_nowait() and move it to a later
stage.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
index b229f6d..fc1c0c6 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
@@ -243,6 +243,13 @@
pcmcia_parse_events(socket, SS_DETECT);
+ /*
+ * Let's try to get the PCMCIA module for 16-bit PCMCIA support.
+ * If it fails, it doesn't matter -- we still have 32-bit CardBus
+ * support to offer, so this is not a failure mode.
+ */
+ request_module_nowait("pcmcia");
+
return 0;
err: