[PATCH] pcmcia: deprecate ioctl

Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the
pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005.

A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in
Linux.  Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make
PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 1d227ee3792a..12dde43fe657 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -119,3 +119,19 @@ Why:	Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names
         will be available until removal of old names.
 Who:    Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
 
+---------------------------
+
+What:   PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
+When:   November 2005
+Files:  drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
+Why:    With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a
+        normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel
+        infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA
+        control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is
+        unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the
+        PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more
+        difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either
+        handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new
+        pcmciautils package available at
+        http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/
+Who:    Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>