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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:43:12 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] pcmcia: bus pcmcia_bus_type, driver_socket as interface
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:22:59PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Patch #1: pcmcia-2.5.62-bus_drivers-3
> These patches add a new bus_type pcmcia_bus_type, and registers all pcmcia
> drivers with this bus. This is still done using the "old" registration
> calls; but over the long term this will move -- so that the pcmcia core
> knows about module->owner, for example.
> 
> Patch #2: pcmcia-2.5.62-ds-1
> This starts a change of "Driver Servies" to become a "interface" to
> pcmcia_socket-class devices. The interface_add_data call is commented out
> due to a driver model bug (deadlock) Patrick Mochel already knows about. Due
> to this, removing a driver services module or a socket won't currently work.

This looks really nice!  Could you post an example driver converted to use
pcmcia_register_driver() and friends?

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