From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
akpm@osdl.org, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org, Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:52:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100313065254.GF12554@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100310210015.GB16230@isilmar.linta.de>
On Wed 2010-03-10 22:00:15, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:45:46PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > So you believe that disabling the button in the graphical environment
> > > > to allow PCMCIA cards to be removed (such as CF cards) - leaving the
> > > > user to merely pull out the CF card, while the FS is mounted, is a
> > > > good idea?
> > >
> > > Do any graphical environments even support the ancient user space
> > > pcmcica helper stuff ? I can't find any evidence they do but I realise
> >
> > Yes; qtopia shipped with zaurus sl-5500 (collie), and very probably
> > opie and gpe...
> >
> > Sharp needed operating system for the handheld, and yes it supported
> > all the hw.
>
> So qtopia still uses the PCMCIA ioctl? Or is it some custom add-on code by
> zaurus? I'd very much like to see some more source code, what parts of
> the IOCTL it uses etc. pp. Or at least some pointers...
Well, Alan asked about "any graphical environments even support the
ancient user space pcmcica helper stuff", and yes I believe there are
some. I probably have one on ancient collie that's lying
somewhere. Not sure about sources, I never used those heavily.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-13 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 7:59 [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-03 8:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] pcmcia: disable pcmcia ioctl for !ARM, prepare for removal Dominik Brodowski
2010-05-15 14:24 ` Russell King
2010-05-15 14:37 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-05-15 14:46 ` Russell King
2010-05-15 14:55 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-03 8:30 ` [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Russell King
2010-03-03 8:43 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-05 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 12:57 ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-05 21:41 ` Russell King
2010-03-06 2:44 ` Peter Stuge
2010-03-10 20:45 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-10 21:00 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-13 6:52 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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