where can I get the changes of PCMCIA between kernel 2.4 and 2.6?

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:15:15PM +0800, mail mail wrote:
> I am porting a pcmcia device driver from kernel 2.4 to kernel 2.6. And
> I find that the header files of pcmcia in linux are different between
> 2.4 and 2.6. For example, in kernel 2.4, the definition of dev_link_t
> includes "struct timer_list   release", but none in kerne 2.6. Another
> case in point is that there is bus_ops.h header file in kernel 2.4 but
> it disappears in kernel 2.6.
> 
> I want to know how to port a pcmcia device driver from kernel 2.4 to
> 2.6. First of all, I should know the changes between these two
> kernels. I have read the README accompany with pcmcia-cs-3.2.8 in
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/. But I find nothing useful for me.
> And I have searched using google, but I can't locate the useful
> information. So I turn for help in here.

Check out Documentation/pcmcia/ in the kernel sources (I recommend
2.6.12-rc2-mm2 for that) as well as the history both to be found in
bitkeeper ( http://linux.bkbits.com/ ) and in git ( http://kernel.org/git/ )

> Are the header files different between kernel pcmcia subsystem and
> standalone pcmcia?

Yes.

	Dominik