linux-kernel - Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

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Message-ID: <20070509130346.GC23574@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 15:03:47 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
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, May 09, 2007 at 12:54:16PM +0000, 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 not sure this is obsolete-enough to kill.

Why didn't pcmciautils work?

> 							Pavel

cu
Adrian

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