Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 04:58:14 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:46:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 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.

Well, I've not followed evolutions in this area for a long time. Here's
what I get on my notebook :

willy@wtap:~$ uname -r
2.6.20-wt3-wtap
willy@wtap:~$ ps auxw|grep card
root 1216 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr28 0:00 [pccardd]
root 1221 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr28 0:00 [pccardd]
root 1244 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr28 0:00 [pccardd]
root 1251 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Ss Apr28 0:00 /sbin/cardmgr

What's the new recommended way of using PCMCIA cards when cardmgr is gone ?

Thanks,
Willy

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