PCMCIA development and 2.6-test

Dominik Brodowski linux at brodo.de
Fri Jul 11 15:03:54 BST 2003


Hi all,

So, finally, Linus decided to switch to 2.6-test. What does this mean for
us? Here's my suggestion:

a) don't do anything wrt in-kernel matching, hotplug etc. It's too invasive
for a soon-to-become-stable series. With a few exceptions and a few cleanups
[most notably the register/unregister process] any out-of-tree 2.4. pcmcia
driver should work with 2.6. too.

b) continue the improvment of the socket handling, especially the socket
resource handling. This includes the "turn rsrc_mgr on its head" patch, a
mapstatic.c / mapwindow.c split-up, and some other work.

c) give me a chainsaw for 2.7. so that cardmgr can die, pcmcia and cardbus
can be seperated even more, #typedef's are removed, CodingStyle is adhered.

The consequences:

1) Russell, please revert the license-patch currently in linux-2.5-pcmcia-BK.
Due to a) it's not needed at the moment.

2) Please push the "ss_entry to ops" and the "don't hide calls to socket
drivers" anyway.

	Dominik






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