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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:43:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100303084337.GA24920@comet.dominikbrodowski.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100303083010.GA22928@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell,

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:30:11AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> 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?

In which graphical environment specifically?`Which graphical environment
failed to update how to issue card removal events[1] even though the old
interface has been marked as deprecated since July 2005, and clear and bold
warnings have been visible in dmesg since September 2005?

Thanks,
	Dominik

[1] Either
# echo 1 > /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket{0,1,...}/card_eject
or, if pcmciautils are used,
# pccardctl eject [socket]

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03  8:43 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 [this message]
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

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