[PATCH 2/3] pcmcia: update Documentation

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Thu Jun 30 04:41:11 EDT 2005


As the information is now exported via sysfs, there's no need for an
userspace tool any longer.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>

---

 Documentation/Changes                |    2 +-
 Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt |    5 ++---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6.12-git10/Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt
===================================================================
--- 2.6.12-git10.orig/Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt
+++ 2.6.12-git10/Documentation/pcmcia/devicetable.txt
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ PCMCIA_DEVICE_PROD_ID1("some_string", 0x
 If the hash is incorrect, the kernel will inform you about this in "dmesg"
 upon module initialization, and tell you of the correct hash.
 
-You can determine the hash of the product ID strings by running
-"pcmcia-modalias %n.%m" [%n being replaced with the socket number and %m being
-replaced with the device function] from pcmciautils. It generates a string
+You can determine the hash of the product ID strings by catting the file
+"modalias" in the sysfs directory of the PCMCIA device. It generates a string
 in the following form:
 pcmcia:m0149cC1ABf06pfn00fn00pa725B842DpbF1EFEE84pc0877B627pd00000000
 
Index: 2.6.12-git10/Documentation/Changes
===================================================================
--- 2.6.12-git10.orig/Documentation/Changes
+++ 2.6.12-git10/Documentation/Changes
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ o  e2fsprogs              1.29          
 o  jfsutils               1.1.3                   # fsck.jfs -V
 o  reiserfsprogs          3.6.3                   # reiserfsck -V 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs
 o  xfsprogs               2.6.0                   # xfs_db -V
-o  pcmciautils            001
+o  pcmciautils            004
 o  pcmcia-cs              3.1.21                  # cardmgr -V
 o  quota-tools            3.09                    # quota -V
 o  PPP                    2.4.0                   # pppd --version



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