pcmcia: add pcmcia_loop_config() helper

[~andy/linux] / Documentation / pcmcia / driver-changes.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
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--- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors:
 
+* 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
+   to use pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple, pcmcia_get_tuple_data and
+   pcmcia_parse_tuple directly in most if not all cases.
+
 * New release helper (as of 2.6.17)
    Instead of calling pcmcia_release_{configuration,io,irq,win}, all that's
    necessary now is calling pcmcia_disable_device. As there is no valid