From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754027Ab0CFCwP (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:52:15 -0500 Received: from foo.birdnet.se ([213.88.146.6]:48580 "HELO foo.birdnet.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752774Ab0CFCwO (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:52:14 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 440 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:52:13 EST Message-ID: <20100306024450.29072.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 03:44:50 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alan Cox , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Mail-Followup-To: linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput References: <20100303075944.GA23354@comet.dominikbrodowski.net> <20100303083010.GA22928@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100305120746.646126b9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100305214159.GB2994@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100305214159.GB2994@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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