Bugzilla Bug 140116

Hi,
I have looked at http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=&use=pcmcia

and it seems that the hostapdriver ebuild is the only one using pcmcia specific
linux-mod functions.

I am suggesting to move the pcmcia specific code to the hostap driver so that
we eliminate the pcmcia occurances in linux-mod. Any problems with that? ANy
more ebuilds using the specific functions?

Created an attachment (id=91603) [edit]
hostap-pcmcia.diff

patch to make hostap-driver work even without the linux-mod pcmcia
functionality

Created an attachment (id=91604) [edit]
linux-mod.diff

Patch for linux-mod to remove pcmcia specific functions

Given that we have the library code already in place, and it is semi-likely
that another ebuild in the future will want to use the same code at some point,
I'm not too sure about this.

What are your thoughts on the method suggested in bug 122868?

the code is obsolete and only usefull for 2.4 kernels. Not likely that any new
ebuild will use it in future.

I committed the change to hostap-driver. Removed the linux-wlan-ng bug from
depend because those versions inherit the obsolete "pcmcia" eclass for the
functions. I mailed johnm if I can commit the linux-mod eclass changes, waiting
for an answer currently.

thanks to johnm I have committed this now.