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| author | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2006-01-15 09:32:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2006-03-31 17:15:50 +0200 |
| commit | 5f2a71fcb7995633b335a1e380ac63a968e61320 (patch) | |
| tree | d47f4227d314fc9f298b75c217fa78440004e6e7 /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | 1de9cedfbdff1d8adb662cd3afc5bda66e393351 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_device
pcmcia_disable_device(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev) performs the necessary
cleanups upon device or driver removal: it calls the appropriate
pcmcia_release_* functions, and can replace (most) of the current drivers'
_release() functions.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 97420f08c786..c89a5e29bb4c 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 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 + reason left to call pcmcia_release_io and pcmcia_release_irq, they will + be removed soon. + * Unify detach and REMOVAL event code, as well as attach and INSERTION code (as of 2.6.16) void (*remove) (struct pcmcia_device *dev); |