Commit bf45d9b0 authored by Dominik Brodowski's avatar Dominik Brodowski Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 69a4d56b

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>

drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig

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#

# 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.

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