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| 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 |