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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-15 13:46:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-15 13:46:29 +0200 |
| commit | b2aaf8f74cdc84a9182f6cabf198b7763bcb9d40 (patch) | |
| tree | 53ccb1c2c14751fe69cf93102e76e97021f6df07 /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | 4f962d4d65923d7b722192e729840cfb79af0a5a (diff) | |
| parent | 278429cff8809958d25415ba0ed32b59866ab1a8 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
include/asm-x86/pda.h
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 96f155e6875..059934363ca 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 |