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| author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2009-12-10 15:40:31 +0900 |
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| committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2009-12-10 15:40:31 +0900 |
| commit | b5c00a3a412857d6f07970984068c450429e051c (patch) | |
| tree | 1fde50630cbc24e11a45169f717f281db8eb6dcc /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | ca6f2d7fafd2d48b2f6943f5c6787beaec2014d0 (diff) | |
| parent | 3067e02f8f3ae2f3f02ba76400d03b8bcb4942b0 (diff) | |
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into sh/for-2.6.33
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diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 059934363ca..446f43b309d 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,17 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* no cs_error / CS_CHECK / CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of the cs_error() callback or the CS_CHECK() macro, please use + Linux-style checking of return values, and -- if necessary -- debug + messages using "dev_dbg()" or "pr_debug()". + +* New CIS tuple access (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple(), pcmcia_get_tuple_data() and + pcmcia_parse_tuple(), a driver shall use "pcmcia_get_tuple()" if it is + only interested in one (raw) tuple, or "pcmcia_loop_tuple()" if it is + interested in all tuples of one type. To decode the MAC from CISTPL_FUNCE, + a new helper "pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis()" was added. + * New configuration loop helper (as of 2.6.28) By calling pcmcia_loop_config(), a driver can iterate over all available configuration options. During a driver's probe() phase, one doesn't need |