Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Dan Mick wrote: >> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> I'd like to gather rough opinions about an idea to "simplify" >>> pcmcia. Our pcmcia stack in Solaris is rather complex, and I think a >>> lot of this owes to a desire to make it compliant with the >>> quasi-portable Card Services API/DDK (specified by the PCMCIA org, >>> and largely meant for use with other operating systems; intended to >>> facilitate porting pccard drivers, I think.) >> >> Is the code complexity causing problems? Is this work more important >> than new feature support or RFEs/projects on live subsystems? >> > We have several device that are "live" on pcmcia, and have a lot of > complexity introduced to them via this. > > I strongly suspect there is even "dead" code, which we are keeping > around just because of Card Services API specifications. I hate "dead" > code. > > I suppose I could be just like everyone else and avert my eyes, and work > on other things.
I hate dead code that's a detriment of some sort. A minute of build time, if that's all it is, doesn't warrant much work, and it seems like the bug velocity in that code is pretty small; mostly it has to do with Cardbus, which we agree we want. I dunno; seems like a lot more discussion, even, than it would warrant.
