[PATCH 2/3] mark unused/obsolete code in bulkmem.c

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.de
Thu Mar 25 17:23:44 GMT 2004


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:17:25AM -0800, David Hinds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:25:04PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > Most of bulkmem.c is unused. Mark it PCMCIA_OBSOLETE, and move the 
> > corresponding EXPORT_SYMBOL calls closer to the functions.
> 
> The pcmcia_get_window() function should never have been exported in
> the first place; you can make that static in all cases.
> 
> As for the rest... the bulkmem services are/were only ever used by the
> "linear flash" memory card drivers in the pcmcia-cs package.  I had
> not imported these drivers into the kernel tree because at the time
> I'd thought that there could be a unification of the MTD code with the
> current kernel MTD support (which was partly derived from the
> pcmcia-cs MTD code), but I never had time to do it.

Do you know whether these memory cards are supported by linux-2.6
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c?

Thanks,
	Dominik
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