From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756847AbZGCCRe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:17:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753059AbZGCCR0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:17:26 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41762 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752947AbZGCCRZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:17:25 -0400 Subject: Reminder for feature PCMCIA control ioctl removal date Nov 2005 From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Dominik Brodowski , LKML Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:29:54 +0530 Message-Id: <1246586394.2530.2.camel@jaswinder.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 (2.26.1-2.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Dominik, What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 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 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/ Who: Dominik Brodowski If you are facing any issue regarding feature removal kindly update the "Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt" like what you are waiting for. Thanks, -- JSR http://userweb.kernel.org/~jaswinder/