Well, yes.... I'd managed to work that much out for myself.
Let me try again:
(1) What, exactly, is meant by "please expect breakage"?
(2) How does one "upgrade to new tools" and why should this be necessary
when the installation consists entirely in those provided with the
Debian package?
Chris.
2008/4/26 The Holy ettlz <theholyettlz@???>:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 10:20 +0100, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > dmesg on my ThinkPad T42 (Debian Etch) includes:
> >
> > device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised:
> > dm-devel@???
> > pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: discover.
> > pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please
> > expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
> > pcmcia: see
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for
> > details.
>
> I think it means that there's an old PCMCIA-related ioctl (device
> control system call) that is being deprecated. This could break certain
> user-space programs that call it, such as pcmcia. Newer vesions of that
> program will use newer calls.
>
> I don't think support for the hardware is in any danger of being
> dropped!
>
> James
>
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