From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753652Ab0CCInr (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:43:47 -0500 Received: from isilmar.linta.de ([213.133.102.198]:53520 "EHLO linta.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752864Ab0CCInp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:43:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:43:37 +0100 From: Dominik Brodowski To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Alan Cox , "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Message-ID: <20100303084337.GA24920@comet.dominikbrodowski.net> Mail-Followup-To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Alan Cox , "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org References: <20100303075944.GA23354@comet.dominikbrodowski.net> <20100303083010.GA22928@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100303083010.GA22928@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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]