Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 09:03:54 EST


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 not sure this is obsolete-enough to kill.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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