From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:20:36 -0700 Subject: Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip! --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b6b1f5ab5354 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +The following is a list of files and features that are going to be +removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what +exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing +the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also +be removed from this file. + +--------------------------- + +What: devfs +When: July 2005 +Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs + function calls throughout the kernel tree +Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable + races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is + against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman + +--------------------------- + +What: ACPI S4bios support +When: May 2005 +Why: Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is + faster, more reliable, and people are actually using it. +Who: Pavel Machek + +--------------------------- + +What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES) +When: July 2005 +Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better + (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the + pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman + +--------------------------- + +What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function) +When: September 2005 +Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space + addressabilty (by using a pfn) and supports sparc & sparc64 + iospace as part of the pfn. +Who: Randy Dunlap -- cgit v1.2.2