From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031440AbWKUVqZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:46:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031441AbWKUVqZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:46:25 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:47889 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031440AbWKUVqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:46:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:46:17 +0000 From: Russell King To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Dominik Brodowski , 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 Message-ID: <20061121214616.GA3983@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Bunk , Dominik Brodowski , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061121213419.GS5200@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061121213419.GS5200@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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