Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030250AbXEAI4u (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:56:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754716AbXEAI4t (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:56:49 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:4326 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754709AbXEAI4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:56:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:56:39 +0100 From: Russell King To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: pcmcia ioctl removal Message-ID: <20070501085639.GA18233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501084623.GB14364@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070501084623.GB14364@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 34 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. And I still run and use a platform where the GUI issues cardmgr ioctls. A recent kernel upgrade (from 2.6.9ish to something more recent) broke the "eject" GUI button applet due to the fscking with the cardmgr ioctls, and it thinks the wireless card is always plugged in (and therefore the signal strength meter remains.) With all the ioctls gone I'll probably loose the signal strength meter. And no, I don't have the resources (read: code) to fix and rebuild userspace since I didn't snarf them when the CVS server was alive a few years back. That's the problem with API changes - things always break. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/