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@@ -138,19 +138,25 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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140What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) 140What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
141When: November 2005 141When: 2.6.35/2.6.36
142Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c 142Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
143Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a 143Why: 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/
153Who: 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.
159Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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