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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org Subject: Re: pcmcia ioctl removal On Wed, 9 May 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch > > > > ... > > > > > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. > > > > The patch above is the removal of cardmgr support. While I'd love > > to see this cruft gone it definitively needs maintainer judgement > > on whether they time has come that no one relies on cardmgr > > anymore. > > I remember needing cardmgr few months ago on sa-1100 arm system. I'm > not sure this is obsolete-enough to kill. in that case, someone really should update feature-removal-schedule.txt, which currently reads: What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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