[PATCH] pcmcia: deprecate ioctl

Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the
pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005.

A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in
Linux.  Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make
PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 1d227ee..12dde43 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -119,3 +119,19 @@ Why:       Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names
        will be available until removal of old names.
 Who:   Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
 
+---------------------------
+
+What:  PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
+When:  November 2005
+Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
+Why:   With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a
+       normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel
+       infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA
+       control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is
+       unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the
+       PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more
+       difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either
+       handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new
+       pcmciautils package available at
+       http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/
+Who:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>

diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig b/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
index 52ea345..bb4dd27 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 #
-# PCMCIA bus subsystem configuration
-#
-# Right now the non-CardBus choices are not supported
-# by the integrated kernel driver.
+# PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) bus subsystem configuration
 #
 
 menu "PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support"
@@ -32,7 +29,7 @@ config PCMCIA_DEBUG
 
          The kernel command line options are:
            pcmcia_core.pc_debug=N
-           ds.pc_debug=N
+           pcmcia.pc_debug=N
            sa11xx_core.pc_debug=N
 
          The module option is called pc_debug=N
@@ -73,7 +70,7 @@ config PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS
          If unsure, say Y.
 
 config PCMCIA_IOCTL
-       bool
+       bool "PCMCIA control ioctl (obsolete)"
        depends on PCMCIA
        default y
        help
@@ -81,9 +78,8 @@ config PCMCIA_IOCTL
          subsystem will be built. It is needed by cardmgr and cardctl
          (pcmcia-cs) to function properly.
 
-         If you do not use the new pcmciautils package, and have a
-         yenta, Cirrus PD6729, i82092, i82365 or tcic compatible bridge,
-         you need to say Y here to be able to use 16-bit PCMCIA cards.
+         You should use the new pcmciautils package instead (see
+         <file:Documentation/Changes> for location and details).
 
          If unsure, say Y.