[2.6 patch] pcmcia: kill IN_CARD_SERVICES

[Dominik Brodowski]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:26:49PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:42:14PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > > > IN_CARD_SERVICES was #define'd but not used, so let's remove it.
> > > > 
> > > > NAK.
> > > > 
> > > > This breaks compilation of the pcmcia-cs userspace utils.
> > > 
> > > then it is time to finally fix pcmcia-cs.
> > 
> > Russell -- what exactly do you still need pcmcia-cs for (and why exactly
> > can't you switch to pcmciautils); and do you need a full-fledged pcmcia-cs
> > interface?
> 
> The problem I have is that I have a machine here which is in regular use.
> The original development for the platform finished several years back and
> the CVS server which had all the userspace source on has *gone*.
> 
> So, I *really* don't care about breaking the pcmcia-cs build.  What I care
> about is being able to continue to regularly use the machine _and_ test
> out later kernels on the platform.

Does the kernel set up the PCMCIA devices properly during boot, without
userspace interaction? Or is it the "bring the network up" side of
pcmcia-cs which is required here?

The userspace side of pcmciautils is only needed on x86, and for some corner
cases on non-x86 systems... and if everything just works fine without having
to install pcmciautils on this system and even if pcmcia-cs were broken,
that'd be the best of two worlds, wouldn't it?

Thanks,
	Dominik