linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation)

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Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 03:44:50 +0100
From:	Peter Stuge <peter@...ge.se>
To:	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, torvalds@...l.org,
	akpm@...l.org, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl
	deprecation)

Russell King wrote:
> > Do any graphical environments even support the ancient user space
> > pcmcica helper stuff ?
> 
> I believe so - the platform I have is based around the Open Embedded
> stuff, and there's a button on the desktop which communicates with the
> kernel via the PCMCIA ioctls.  One of the things it offers is to allow
> media (eg, CF) to be safely ejected without ending up pulling the card
> out while the FS is still mounted.

So if you upgrade that system to a kernel without that call I guess
you may have to either also upgrade that GUI software, or install a
.so to wrap ioctl() and provide backwards compatibility for the app?


//Peter
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