Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:38:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: pcmcia_ioctl.c compile error |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:15:20 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > > 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)
oh, OK, whatever, that's easy. I dropped the old patch and queued this one:
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~x +++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -47,23 +47,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infr --------------------------- -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 <linux@brodo.de> - ---------------------------- - What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL _
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