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| author | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2010-07-11 11:51:14 +0400 |
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| committer | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2010-07-30 23:07:26 +0400 |
| commit | 5716d415f8c5a17d44f6e1d5a1e4998f7306a93b (patch) | |
| tree | 81a946cccfd7ddb6f1b01839f68afa27fc42a180 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | b37fa16e78d6f9790462b3181602a26b5af36260 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5716d415f8c5a17d44f6e1d5a1e4998f7306a93b.tar.xz | |
pcmcia: remove obsolete ioctl
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index c268783bc4e7..27ed68d95adc 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -116,29 +116,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> --------------------------- -What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) -When: 2.6.35/2.6.36 -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 potentially harmful (it does not provide for - proper locking), 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/ - - For all architectures except ARM, the associated config symbol - has been removed from kernel 2.6.34; for ARM, it will be likely - be removed from kernel 2.6.35. The actual code will then likely - be removed from kernel 2.6.36. -Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> - ---------------------------- - What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL |