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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-15 02:31:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-15 02:31:54 +0200 |
| commit | 6dc6472581f693b5fc95aebedf67b4960fb85cf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 06a5a9a08519950575505273eabced331ed51405 /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | powerpc: Fix CHRP PCI config access for indirect_pci (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux (diff) | |
| download | linux-6dc6472581f693b5fc95aebedf67b4960fb85cf0.tar.xz linux-6dc6472581f693b5fc95aebedf67b4960fb85cf0.zip | |
Merge commit 'origin'
Manual fixup of conflicts on:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/dcr-regs.h
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.h
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diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 96f155e68750..059934363caf 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* 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 + to use pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple, pcmcia_get_tuple_data and + pcmcia_parse_tuple directly in most if not all cases. + * New release helper (as of 2.6.17) Instead of calling pcmcia_release_{configuration,io,irq,win}, all that's necessary now is calling pcmcia_disable_device. As there is no valid |