kernel/linux.git/drivers/pcmcia/Makefile, branch master

pcmcia: remove obsolete host controller drivers

2026-03-30T05:28:13+00:00

PCMCIA is almost completely obsolete (the last computers supporting it natively were from ~2009), and the general consensus [1] seems to be that support for it should be gradually removed from the kernel. In 2023, an initial step of removing all the PCMCIA char drivers was taken in commit 9b12f050c76f ("char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers"), and that has not been reverted, so it seems logical to continue this process by removing more low-hanging fruit. These host controller drivers have had no meaningful changes since their status was discussed in 2022 [2], and are unlikely to have any remaining users. Remove them and a couple references to them in comments. The i82365 and tcic drivers are for ISA-attached host controllers, which are even less likely to be used nowadays than ones on other buses. The i82092 driver has almost certainly not been used in over 20 years. It was broken by a null pointer dereference since the dawn of Git history (2.6.12-rc2 in 2005) until someone fixed it in 2021 in commit e39cdacf2f66 ("pcmcia: i82092: fix a null pointer dereference bug"). From their dmesg log [3], it is clear they were testing in an emulated environment and not on real hardware. i82365.h is used by drivers other than i82365 and is therefore retained. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y07d7rMvd5++85BJ@owl.dominikbrodowski.net/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1624345891-4215-1-git-send-email-zheyuma97@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore Acked-by: Dave Hansen # for x86 Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: remove PCCARD_IODYN

2025-08-16T13:37:47+00:00

The config PCCARD_IODYN was last used in the config option PCMCIA_M8XX with its m8xx_pcmcia driver. This driver was removed with commit 39eb56da2b53 ("pcmcia: Remove m8xx_pcmcia driver"), included in v3.17, back in 2014. Since then, the config PCCARD_IODYN is unused. Remove the config option, the corresponding file included with this config and the corresponding definition in the pcmcia header file. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: remove unused pxa/sa1100 drivers

2023-02-01T16:23:38+00:00

A number of boards got removed, so this code is now orphaned. Cc: Dominik Brodowski Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

pcmcia: remove AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver

2022-09-27T06:12:16+00:00

As noted by Arnd Bergmann, "we used to have three drivers for the same hardware (pcmcia, pata and ide), and only the pcmcia driver remained in the tree after drivers/ide/ was removed and pata_at91 did not get converted to DT". "There is no dts file in tree that actually declares either of them, so chances are that nobody is actually using the CF slot on at91 any more."[1] On this rationale, remove the AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver, which also assists in reaching "the goal of stopping exporting OF-specific APIs of gpiolib".[2] [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/68c63077-848b-45f5-8aca-ed995391f2b6@www.fastmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yy6d7TjqzUwGQnQa@penguin/ Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Acked-by: Linus Walleij Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: remove VR41XX PCMCIA driver

2022-09-22T14:23:52+00:00

Commit d3164e2f3b0a ("MIPS: Remove VR41xx support") removed support for MIPS VR41xx platform, so remove exclusive drivers for this platform, too. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

ARM: pxa: move pcmcia board data into mach-pxa

2022-04-19T19:34:05+00:00

The drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_*.c are essentially part of the board files, but for historic reasons located in drivers/pcmcia. Move them into the same place as the actual board file to avoid lots of machine header inclusions. Cc: Marek Vasut Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

ARM: pxa: remove Intel Imote2 and Stargate 2 boards

2022-02-28T14:08:14+00:00

I have no reason to believe these boards have any more users and I haven't tested them for several years. Removing them may simplify other changes to the various PXA boards people still care about. The recent conversion of pxa2xx_spi to GPIO descriptors for example had to update this board despite no one caring or testing. Great boards that got me started in kernel development, RIP! Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Acked-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Daniel Mack Cc: Robert Jarzmik Cc: Haojian Zhuang Cc: soc@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220227134431.908998-1-jic23@kernel.org' Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

pcmcia: clean up dead drivers for CompuLab CM-X255/CM-X270 boards

2022-01-02T17:34:24+00:00

Commit 9d3239147d6d ("ARM: pxa: remove Compulab pxa2xx boards") removes the config MACH_ARMCORE in ./arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig. Hence, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns on non-existing configs: MACH_ARMCORE Referencing files: drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig, drivers/pcmcia/Makefile Clean up the dead remains of pcmcia drivers for Compulab pxa2xx boards. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: Remove NEC VRC4173 CARDU

2020-12-05T08:53:59+00:00

The driver was introduced in 2.6.11 in the pre-git times with commit "[PATCH] mips: vR41xx updates". However, even back then, this driver was not able to be compiled, as a number of udpates had been missing from this driver: It still provided a "->get_io_map" callback (removed for v2.5.66) and a "->inquire_socket" callback and used socket_cap_t (removed for v2.5.72). Moreover, this driver failed to be brought and be kept up to date; e.g. it still provides '->register_callback', incompatible with a change committed for v2.6.14 in commit 7f316b033b36 ("[PATCH] pcmcia: remove socket register_callback"), and uses INIT_WORK() with three arguments which was removed in commit 65f27f38446e1 ("WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data") Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [linux@dominikbrodowski.net: rewrite commit message] Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

pcmcia: add MAX1600 library

2018-12-04T22:37:38+00:00

Add a library for the MAX1600 PCMCIA power switch device. This is a dual-channel device, controlled via four GPIO signals per channel. Two signals control the Vcc output, and two control the Vpp output. Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Russell King