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[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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Dominik Brodowski 2005-07-07 17:58:58 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 69a4d56bae
commit bf45d9b0ac
2 changed files with 21 additions and 9 deletions
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@ -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>

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drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
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@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
#
# PCMCIA bus subsystem configuration
#
# Right now the non-CardBus choices are not supported
# by the integrated kernel driver.
# PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) bus subsystem configuration
#
menu "PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support"
@ -32,7 +29,7 @@ config PCMCIA_DEBUG
The kernel command line options are:
pcmcia_core.pc_debug=N
ds.pc_debug=N
pcmcia.pc_debug=N
sa11xx_core.pc_debug=N
The module option is called pc_debug=N
@ -73,7 +70,7 @@ config PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS
If unsure, say Y.
config PCMCIA_IOCTL
bool
bool "PCMCIA control ioctl (obsolete)"
depends on PCMCIA
default y
help
@ -81,9 +78,8 @@ config PCMCIA_IOCTL
subsystem will be built. It is needed by cardmgr and cardctl
(pcmcia-cs) to function properly.
If you do not use the new pcmciautils package, and have a
yenta, Cirrus PD6729, i82092, i82365 or tcic compatible bridge,
you need to say Y here to be able to use 16-bit PCMCIA cards.
You should use the new pcmciautils package instead (see
<file:Documentation/Changes> for location and details).
If unsure, say Y.