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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 07:14:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 07:14:38 +0100 |
| commit | bcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6dffd2d3e4dd67355a224de7e7a960335a92fd /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | MAINTAINERS: Add PowerPC patterns (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel... (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 059934363caf..446f43b309df 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,17 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* no cs_error / CS_CHECK / CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of the cs_error() callback or the CS_CHECK() macro, please use + Linux-style checking of return values, and -- if necessary -- debug + messages using "dev_dbg()" or "pr_debug()". + +* New CIS tuple access (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple(), pcmcia_get_tuple_data() and + pcmcia_parse_tuple(), a driver shall use "pcmcia_get_tuple()" if it is + only interested in one (raw) tuple, or "pcmcia_loop_tuple()" if it is + interested in all tuples of one type. To decode the MAC from CISTPL_FUNCE, + a new helper "pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis()" was added. + * New configuration loop helper (as of 2.6.28) By calling pcmcia_loop_config(), a driver can iterate over all available configuration options. During a driver's probe() phase, one doesn't need |