pcmcia ioctl removal

Willy Tarreau w at 1wt.eu
Tue May 1 04:57:10 EDT 2007


Hi Christoph,

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:46:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >  pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch
> 
> ...
> 
> > Dominik is busy.  Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus.
> 
> The patch above is the removal of cardmgr support.  While I'd love to
> see this cruft gone it definitively needs maintainer judgement on whether
> they time has come that no one relies on cardmgr anymore.

Well, I've not followed evolutions in this area for a long time. Here's
what I get on my notebook :

willy at wtap:~$ uname -r
2.6.20-wt3-wtap
willy at wtap:~$ ps auxw|grep card   
root      1216  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Apr28   0:00 [pccardd]
root      1221  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Apr28   0:00 [pccardd]
root      1244  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Apr28   0:00 [pccardd]
root      1251  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Ss   Apr28   0:00 /sbin/cardmgr

What's the new recommended way of using PCMCIA cards when cardmgr is gone ?

Thanks,
Willy




More information about the linux-pcmcia mailing list