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Dominik Brodowski5085cb22005-06-27 16:28:45 -07001Matching of PCMCIA devices to drivers is done using one or more of the
2following criteria:
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4- manufactor ID
5- card ID
6- product ID strings _and_ hashes of these strings
7- function ID
8- device function (actual and pseudo)
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10You should use the helpers in include/pcmcia/device_id.h for generating the
11struct pcmcia_device_id[] entries which match devices to drivers.
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13If you want to match product ID strings, you also need to pass the crc32
14hashes of the string to the macro, e.g. if you want to match the product ID
15string 1, you need to use
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17PCMCIA_DEVICE_PROD_ID1("some_string", 0x(hash_of_some_string)),
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19If the hash is incorrect, the kernel will inform you about this in "dmesg"
20upon module initialization, and tell you of the correct hash.
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Dominik Brodowskieb05bfe2005-06-30 02:58:47 -070022You can determine the hash of the product ID strings by catting the file
23"modalias" in the sysfs directory of the PCMCIA device. It generates a string
Dominik Brodowski5085cb22005-06-27 16:28:45 -070024in the following form:
25pcmcia:m0149cC1ABf06pfn00fn00pa725B842DpbF1EFEE84pc0877B627pd00000000
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27The hex value after "pa" is the hash of product ID string 1, after "pb" for
28string 2 and so on.
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Shuah Khana67cd542016-09-21 16:54:36 -060030Alternatively, you can use crc32hash (see tools/pcmcia/crc32hash.c)
Randy Dunlapd29693b2006-05-21 20:57:42 -070031to determine the crc32 hash. Simply pass the string you want to evaluate
32as argument to this program, e.g.:
Shuah Khana67cd542016-09-21 16:54:36 -060033$ tools/pcmcia/crc32hash "Dual Speed"