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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2008-10-22 23:57:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2008-10-23 00:11:07 -0400 |
| commit | 057316cc6a5b521b332a1d7ccc871cd60c904c74 (patch) | |
| tree | 4333e608da237c73ff69b10878025cca96dcb4c8 /Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | |
| parent | 3e2dab9a1c2deb03c311eb3f83466009147ed4d3 (diff) | |
| parent | 2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts:
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arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
drivers/acpi/Kconfig
drivers/pnp/Makefile
drivers/pnp/quirks.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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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 |