[PATCH 7/11] pcmcia: update documentation

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Sun Jul 24 16:14:53 EDT 2005


Update the PCMCIA documentation to reflect some more, though older,
changes. Parts extracted from an e-mail from Randy Dunlap with his consent.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
---

 Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

Index: 2.6.13-rc3-git2/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
===================================================================
--- 2.6.13-rc3-git2.orig/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
+++ 2.6.13-rc3-git2/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
@@ -56,3 +56,12 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which a
    memory regions in-use. The name argument should be a pointer to
    your driver name. Eg, for pcnet_cs, name should point to the
    string "pcnet_cs".
+
+* CardServices is gone
+  CardServices() in 2.4 is just a big switch statement to call various
+  services.  In 2.6, all of those entry points are exported and called
+  directly (except for pcmcia_report_error(), just use cs_error() instead).
+
+* struct pcmcia_driver
+  You need to use struct pcmcia_driver and pcmcia_{un,}register_driver
+  instead of {un,}register_pccard_driver



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