linux-toradex.git/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig, branch master

pcmcia: remove obsolete host controller drivers

2026-03-30T05:28:13+00:00

PCMCIA is almost completely obsolete (the last computers supporting it
natively were from ~2009), and the general consensus [1] seems to be
that support for it should be gradually removed from the kernel.

In 2023, an initial step of removing all the PCMCIA char drivers was
taken in commit 9b12f050c76f ("char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers"),
and that has not been reverted, so it seems logical to continue this
process by removing more low-hanging fruit.

These host controller drivers have had no meaningful changes since
their status was discussed in 2022 [2], and are unlikely to have any
remaining users. Remove them and a couple references to them
in comments.

The i82365 and tcic drivers are for ISA-attached host controllers,
which are even less likely to be used nowadays than ones on other buses.

The i82092 driver has almost certainly not been used in over 20 years.
It was broken by a null pointer dereference since the dawn of Git
history (2.6.12-rc2 in 2005) until someone fixed it in 2021 in commit
e39cdacf2f66 ("pcmcia: i82092: fix a null pointer dereference bug").
From their dmesg log [3], it is clear they were testing in an emulated
environment and not on real hardware.

i82365.h is used by drivers other than i82365 and is therefore retained.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y07d7rMvd5++85BJ@owl.dominikbrodowski.net/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1624345891-4215-1-git-send-email-zheyuma97@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen  # for x86
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: remove PCCARD_IODYN

2025-08-16T13:37:47+00:00

The config PCCARD_IODYN was last used in the config option PCMCIA_M8XX with
its m8xx_pcmcia driver. This driver was removed with commit 39eb56da2b53
("pcmcia: Remove m8xx_pcmcia driver"), included in v3.17, back in 2014.
Since then, the config PCCARD_IODYN is unused. Remove the config option,
the corresponding file included with this config and the corresponding
definition in the pcmcia header file.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia : make PCMCIA depend on HAS_IOMEM

2023-08-04T13:39:44+00:00

On s390 systems (aka mainframes), it has classic channel devices for
networking and permanent storage that are currently even more common
than PCI devices. Hence it could have a fully functional s390 kernel
with CONFIG_PCI=n, then the relevant iomem mapping functions
[including ioremap(), devm_ioremap(), etc.] are not available.

Here let depend PCMCIA on HAS_IOMEM so that it won't be built to
cause below compiling error if PCI is unset.

------
ld: drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.o: in function `set_cis_map':
cistpl.c:(.text+0x1202): undefined reference to `ioremap'
ld: cistpl.c:(.text+0x13b0): undefined reference to `iounmap'
ld: cistpl.c:(.text+0x14a6): undefined reference to `iounmap'
ld: cistpl.c:(.text+0x1544): undefined reference to `ioremap'
ld: drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.o: in function `release_cis_mem':
cistpl.c:(.text+0x3f14): undefined reference to `iounmap'
------

Besides, many other Kconfig option, e.g IPWIRELESS, PCMCIA_PCNET,
PCMCIA_FMVJ18X, PCMCIA_SMC91C92 which depends on PCMCIA also will
cause compiling error if enabled.

------
ERROR: modpost: "iounmap" [drivers/tty/ipwireless/ipwireless.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "ioremap" [drivers/tty/ipwireless/ipwireless.ko] undefined!

ERROR: modpost: "iounmap" [drivers/net/ethernet/8390/pcnet_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "ioremap" [drivers/net/ethernet/8390/pcnet_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "iounmap" [drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "ioremap" [drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "iounmap" [drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91c92_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "ioremap" [drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91c92_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "iounmap" [drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "ioremap" [drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "devm_ioremap" [drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "iounmap" [drivers/net/arcnet/com90xx.ko] undefined!
------

Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202306211329.ticOJCSv-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He 
Reviewed-by: Niklas Schnelle 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dominik Brodowski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Jonathan Cameron 
Cc: Linus Walleij 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230707135852.24292-5-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pcmcia: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies

2023-05-31T18:17:40+00:00

In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will result in inb()/outb() and friends
not being declared. Add dependencies for those drivers that use them.

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522105049.1467313-27-schnelle@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pcmcia: remove unused pxa/sa1100 drivers

2023-02-01T16:23:38+00:00

A number of boards got removed, so this code is now orphaned.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski 
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

pcmcia: remove AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver

2022-09-27T06:12:16+00:00

As noted by Arnd Bergmann, "we used to have three drivers for the same
hardware (pcmcia, pata and ide), and only the pcmcia driver remained
in the tree after drivers/ide/ was removed and pata_at91 did not get
converted to DT". "There is no dts file in tree that actually declares
either of them, so chances are that nobody is actually using the CF
slot on at91 any more."[1]

On this rationale, remove the AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver, which
also assists in reaching "the goal of stopping exporting OF-specific
APIs of gpiolib".[2]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/68c63077-848b-45f5-8aca-ed995391f2b6@www.fastmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yy6d7TjqzUwGQnQa@penguin/

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Acked-by: Linus Walleij 
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre 
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: remove VR41XX PCMCIA driver

2022-09-22T14:23:52+00:00

Commit d3164e2f3b0a ("MIPS: Remove VR41xx support") removed support
for MIPS VR41xx platform, so remove exclusive drivers for this
platform, too.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

Merge branch 'pcmcia-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux

2022-06-01T17:25:06+00:00

Pull pcmcia updates from Dominik Brodowski:
 "A few odd cleanups and fixes, including a Kconfig fix to add a
  required dependency on MIPS"

* 'pcmcia-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux:
  pcmcia: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt
  pcmcia: db1xxx_ss: restrict to MIPS_DB1XXX boards
  drivers/pcmcia: Fix typo in comment

ARM: omap1: move CF chipselect setup to board file

2022-04-21T13:01:11+00:00

There is only one board that uses the omap_cf driver, so
moving the chipselect configuration there does not lead
to code duplication but avoids the use of mach/tc.h
in drivers.

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

ARM: pxa: remove Intel Imote2 and Stargate 2 boards

2022-02-28T14:08:14+00:00

I have no reason to believe these boards have any more users and I
haven't tested them for several years.  Removing them may simplify
other changes to the various PXA boards people still care about.
The recent conversion of pxa2xx_spi to GPIO descriptors for example
had to update this board despite no one caring or testing.

Great boards that got me started in kernel development, RIP!

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Acked-by: Mark Brown 
Acked-by: Daniel Mack 
Cc: Robert Jarzmik 
Cc: Haojian Zhuang 
Cc: soc@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220227134431.908998-1-jic23@kernel.org'
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann