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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-14 20:31:54 -0400 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-14 20:31:54 -0400 |
commit | 6dc6472581f693b5fc95aebedf67b4960fb85cf0 (patch) | |
tree | 06a5a9a08519950575505273eabced331ed51405 /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
parent | ee673eaa72d8d185012b1027a05e25aba18c267f (diff) | |
parent | 8acd3a60bcca17c6d89c73cee3ad6057eb83ba1e (diff) |
Merge commit 'origin'
Manual fixup of conflicts on:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/dcr-regs.h
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.h
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diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 96f155e68750..059934363caf 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |||
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ | |||
1 | This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: | 1 | This 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 |