From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758830AbYD2VKM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:10:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762899AbYD2VJw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:09:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42272 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762815AbYD2VJv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:09:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:09:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Harvey Harrison Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, bunk@kernel.org, den@openvz.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pcmcia_ioctl.c compile error Message-Id: <20080429140926.bb763630.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1209502988.24729.31.camel@brick> References: <20080429182709.GB2898@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080429201704.GA31311@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080429135902.504b6362.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1209502988.24729.31.camel@brick> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:03:07 -0700 Harvey Harrison wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:59 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:17:04 +0100 Russell King wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:27:10PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Commit 9c37066d888bf6e1b96ad12304971b3ddeabbad0 (proc: remove proc_bus) > > > > came through -mm that contains a patch implementing the overdue removal > > > > of the PCMCIA control ioctl that did not yet make it into Linus' tree: > > > > > > Okay, this means at least one of my platforms is now dead as far as > > > building new kernels for it, and nothing I can do about that. Ho hum. > > > > I don't get it. Several of us had building problems for a few > > days with some pasic driver. We posted some bug reports and > > some patches, but we put up with it for a few days... > > > > I believe Russell is referring to the removal of the ioctl, not the > compile breakage. > That would be interesting information (although I have a vague feeling that it has been discussed before). I've been sitting on pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch for over a year, mainly waiting for Dominik to reappear and decide what to do about it. I could just drop it, shrug.