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diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 059934363ca..adfb83e5867 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* 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 |