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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-14 20:31:54 -0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-14 20:31:54 -0400
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1This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: 1This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors:
2 2
3* New configuration loop helper (as of 2.6.28)
4 By calling pcmcia_loop_config(), a driver can iterate over all available
5 configuration options. During a driver's probe() phase, one doesn't need
6 to use pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple, pcmcia_get_tuple_data and
7 pcmcia_parse_tuple directly in most if not all cases.
8
3* New release helper (as of 2.6.17) 9* New release helper (as of 2.6.17)
4 Instead of calling pcmcia_release_{configuration,io,irq,win}, all that's 10 Instead of calling pcmcia_release_{configuration,io,irq,win}, all that's
5 necessary now is calling pcmcia_disable_device. As there is no valid 11 necessary now is calling pcmcia_disable_device. As there is no valid