From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758122AbYD2VPk (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:15:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754021AbYD2VPb (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:15:31 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:56643 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752715AbYD2VPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:15:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:15:20 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Andrew Morton Cc: Harvey Harrison , rdunlap@xenotime.net, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, bunk@kernel.org, den@openvz.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pcmcia_ioctl.c compile error Message-Id: <20080429141520.7a778606.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20080429140926.bb763630.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080429182709.GB2898@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080429201704.GA31311@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080429135902.504b6362.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1209502988.24729.31.camel@brick> <20080429140926.bb763630.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:09:26 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:03:07 -0700 > Harvey Harrison wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:59 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:17:04 +0100 Russell King wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:27:10PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > Commit 9c37066d888bf6e1b96ad12304971b3ddeabbad0 (proc: remove proc_bus) > > > > > came through -mm that contains a patch implementing the overdue removal > > > > > of the PCMCIA control ioctl that did not yet make it into Linus' tree: > > > > > > > > Okay, this means at least one of my platforms is now dead as far as > > > > building new kernels for it, and nothing I can do about that. Ho hum. > > > > > > I don't get it. Several of us had building problems for a few > > > days with some pasic driver. We posted some bug reports and > > > some patches, but we put up with it for a few days... > > > > > > > I believe Russell is referring to the removal of the ioctl, not the > > compile breakage. > > > > That would be interesting information (although I have a vague feeling that > it has been discussed before). Yes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/27/291 (now that Harvey reminded me/us) > I've been sitting on pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch for > over a year, mainly waiting for Dominik to reappear and decide what to do > about it. > > I could just drop it, shrug. --- ~Randy