From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 03:44:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100306024450.29072.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305214159.GB2994@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
> > Do any graphical environments even support the ancient user space
> > pcmcica helper stuff ?
>
> I believe so - the platform I have is based around the Open Embedded
> stuff, and there's a button on the desktop which communicates with the
> kernel via the PCMCIA ioctls. One of the things it offers is to allow
> media (eg, CF) to be safely ejected without ending up pulling the card
> out while the FS is still mounted.
So if you upgrade that system to a kernel without that call I guess
you may have to either also upgrade that GUI software, or install a
.so to wrap ioctl() and provide backwards compatibility for the app?
//Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 7:59 Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-03 8:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] pcmcia: disable pcmcia ioctl for !ARM, prepare for removal Dominik Brodowski
2010-05-15 14:24 ` Russell King
2010-05-15 14:37 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-05-15 14:46 ` Russell King
2010-05-15 14:55 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-03 8:30 ` [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Russell King
2010-03-03 8:43 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-05 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 12:57 ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-05 21:41 ` Russell King
2010-03-06 2:44 ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2010-03-10 20:45 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-10 21:00 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-13 6:52 ` Pavel Machek
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