Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers

As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-Drops-Char-PCMCIA

[tildearrow]

Droppiung (in short description)

[M@GOid]

I wonder when ExpressCard will face the wood chipper. I just bought a adapter to convert this thing in a USB port in my ancient Thinkpad T430.

[schmidtbag]

I wonder when ExpressCard will face the wood chipper. I just bought a adapter to convert this thing in a USB port in my ancient Thinkpad T430.

Well, that's based on PCIe, so it might not go away for a very long time.

[ayumu]

For those of us still using PCMCIA-equipped hardware, a reminder netbsd and openbsd tend to be better options there.

Much more structured systems, with stable driver APIs and mostly free of monkeys making changes all over the place, to code they don't understand, and without testing said changes; That is indeed the norm in Linux.

[NateHubbard]

For those of us still using PCMCIA-equipped hardware, a reminder netbsd and openbsd tend to be better options there.

Much more structured systems, with stable driver APIs and mostly free of monkeys making changes all over the place, to code they don't understand, and without testing said changes; That is indeed the norm in Linux.

Yes, and so few users you have to troll linux articles trying to find some.

[rogerx]

... and mostly free of monkeys making changes all over the place, to code they don't understand, and without testing said changes; That is indeed the norm in Linux.

I tend to agree.

Doesn't take much effort to accidentally break something, that was working fine for years.

[Lycanthropist]

I wish ExpressCard would still be a thing. Being able to extend the functionality of a Laptop with whatever I want was awesome!

[partcyborg]

For those of us still using PCMCIA-equipped hardware, a reminder netbsd and openbsd tend to be better options there.

Much more structured systems, with stable driver APIs and mostly free of monkeys making changes all over the place, to code they don't understand, and without testing said changes; That is indeed the norm in Linux.

Funny how all the BSDs are literally copying modern linux kernel APIs. Free/Open/NetBSD have all copied linux's DRM subsystem verbatim.

There was a huge argument to be made for this back in the 2000s, but linux has matured dramatically since then.

[rogerx]

Funny how all the BSDs are literally copying modern linux kernel APIs. Free/Open/NetBSD have all copied linux's DRM subsystem verbatim.

There was a huge argument to be made for this back in the 2000s, but linux has matured dramatically since then.

I don't have a problem with Free/Open/NetBSD copying Linux code. Look at Ubuntu, and all it's derivatives.