From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753153Ab0CCId6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:33:58 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:51005 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200Ab0CCId5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:33:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:30:11 +0000 From: Russell King To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Alan Cox , "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Message-ID: <20100303083010.GA22928@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Alan Cox , "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org References: <20100303075944.GA23354@comet.dominikbrodowski.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100303075944.GA23354@comet.dominikbrodowski.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:59:44AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Please pull from that location insofar as you agree to continue with the > deprecation of the PCMCIA ioctl. Otherwise, I can prepare a branch > _without_ this controversial patch to pull from. 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? Sounds to me like a data loss scenario. User APIs changing always breaks stuff. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: