pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: discover.

[Cristian Aravena Romero]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.24

Message in dmesg:
[50617.507357] pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: discover.
[50617.507365] pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
[50617.507369] pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Thanks Cristian,

I assume nothing has actually broken yet? And just out of curiosity, what does 'dpkg -l pcmciautils' return for the version? Thanks.

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

On Jan 18, 2008 4:42 PM, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Cristian,
>
> I assume nothing has actually broken yet? And just out of curiosity,
> what does 'dpkg -l pcmciautils' return for the version? Thanks.

$ dpkg -l pcmciautils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nombre Versión Descripción
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii pcmciautils 014-4ubuntu1 PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

I suspect this message is harmless. I'll keep this report open but am assigning it a low priority.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Niloc Deeps (ajarncolin)]

Hi, I'm on 2.6.27 and the same thing still happens:

[17014.009073] pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: lshw.
[17014.009082] pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
[17014.009086] pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.

[Niloc Deeps (ajarncolin)]

colin@colin:~$ uname -a
Linux colin 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Niloc Deeps (ajarncolin)]

colin@colin:~$ dpkg -l pcmciautils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii pcmciautils 014-4ubuntu1 PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6
colin@colin:~$

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[TJ (tj)]

I've created bug #545858 since lshw causes this warning in Lucid. That bug is against the package "lshw" (Niloc Deep's reports are for lshw not discover, which is the original report here).

I think this bug should be against the package "discover" not "linux" and also marked "Fix Released" since running discover on Lucid doesn't cause this warning.

Looking at the "discover" changelog it appears it was fixed when the package switched to libdiscover2, although the 2.1.2-3 commentary ("Time to drop discover1 and migrate to discover v2") doesn't appear to match up with the dependencies for earlier (pre-Jaunty 9.04) packages which show libdiscover2.

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

I closing report, for my not message in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS