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| author | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2009-11-25 17:00:35 +1100 |
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| committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2009-11-25 17:00:35 +1100 |
| commit | c6d7fdde1e2d7f4ac05c626515aa54cc9e0b094c (patch) | |
| tree | a20a9acb6daff5ca15b3dab9589317558e9ae772 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5eba6ebf383e82206eb43e1179c7a02fb5f3d36b (diff) | |
| parent | 78a14e273d93dfbea9673f9b10398c538096302d (diff) | |
Merge remote branch 'pcmcia/master'
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c
drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c
drivers/pcmcia/Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 059934363caf..446f43b309df 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 |