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@@ -138,19 +138,25 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | |||
138 | --------------------------- | 138 | --------------------------- |
139 | 139 | ||
140 | What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) | 140 | What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) |
141 | When: November 2005 | 141 | When: 2.6.35/2.6.36 |
142 | Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c | 142 | Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c |
143 | Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a | 143 | Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a |
144 | normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel | 144 | normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel |
145 | infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA | 145 | infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA |
146 | control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is | 146 | control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is |
147 | unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the | 147 | unnecessary and potentially harmful (it does not provide for |
148 | proper locking), and makes further cleanups and integration of the | ||
148 | PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more | 149 | PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more |
149 | difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either | 150 | difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either |
150 | handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new | 151 | handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new |
151 | pcmciautils package available at | 152 | pcmciautils package available at |
152 | http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ | 153 | http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ |
153 | Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> | 154 | |
155 | For all architectures except ARM, the associated config symbol | ||
156 | has been removed from kernel 2.6.34; for ARM, it will be likely | ||
157 | be removed from kernel 2.6.35. The actual code will then likely | ||
158 | be removed from kernel 2.6.36. | ||
159 | Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | ||
154 | 160 | ||
155 | --------------------------- | 161 | --------------------------- |
156 | 162 | ||