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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-12-06 17:00:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-12-06 17:00:33 +0000 |
| commit | 3d14b5beba35250c548d3851a2b84fce742d8311 (patch) | |
| tree | 065e3d93c3fcbc5ee4c44fa78662393cddbdf6de /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | 0719dc341389882cc834ed18fc9b7fc6006b2b85 (diff) | |
| parent | 1bf8e6219552d5dd27012d567ec8c4bb9c2d86b4 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'sa1100' into devel
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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 |