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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 12 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index be7030e4dd73..6fdb837d940b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -116,29 +116,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> --------------------------- -What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) -When: 2.6.35/2.6.36 -Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c -Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a - normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel - infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA - control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is - unnecessary and potentially harmful (it does not provide for - proper locking), and makes further cleanups and integration of the - PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more - difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either - handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new - pcmciautils package available at - http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ - - For all architectures except ARM, the associated config symbol - has been removed from kernel 2.6.34; for ARM, it will be likely - be removed from kernel 2.6.35. The actual code will then likely - be removed from kernel 2.6.36. -Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> - ---------------------------- - What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 61bc4e943116..26c0f9c00545 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,4 +1,16 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* pcmcia_request_io changes (as of 2.6.36) + Instead of io_req_t, drivers are now requested to fill out + struct pcmcia_device *p_dev->resource[0,1] for up to two ioport + ranges. After a call to pcmcia_request_io(), the ports found there + are reserved, after calling pcmcia_request_configuration(), they may + be used. + +* No dev_info_t, no cs_types.h (as of 2.6.36) + dev_info_t and a few other typedefs are removed. No longer use them + in PCMCIA device drivers. Also, do not include pcmcia/cs_types.h, as + this file is gone. + * No dev_node_t (as of 2.6.35) There is no more need to fill out a "dev_node_t" structure. |