[PATCH -mm2] CardServices compatibility layer
Andrew Morton
akpm at osdl.org
Mon Dec 29 12:10:47 GMT 2003
Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.de> wrote:
>
> From -mm2 changelog:
> > Complete the removal of the usage of the CardServices API from drivers.
> > It's a bit late for this, but apparantly the varargs usage in the API
> > cannot work correctly on x86_64 (at least).
>
> ... as it's so late, let's add a compatibility layer which allows for
> CardServices usage as long as !x86_64.
>
That seems like a good idea, but I'll need help from rmk, dhinds, etc on
understanding whether it is a desirable thing.
How does this patch get tested? Is it tested?
Note the "(at least)". I think other architectures have a similar problem
- I'm not sure what the complete list is.
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