From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] the overdue removal of drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:46:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061121214616.GA3983@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061121213419.GS5200@stusta.de>
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:34:19PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the overdue removal of drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
> plus additional cleanups possible after this removal.
There are still systems around which (a) use cardmgr rather than the new
pcmcia utils, and (b) applications make direct ioctl calls to the kernel
PCMCIA layer external to the pcmcia-cs packages.
Like it or not, the PCMCIA ioctls are a well-established API.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 21:34 [RFC: 2.6 patch] the overdue removal of drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c Adrian Bunk
2006-11-21 21:46 ` Russell King [this message]
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2006-03-24 1:46 Adrian Bunk
2006-03-24 10:45 ` David Härdeman
2006-03-26 8:00 ` Dominik Brodowski
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