[CPUFREQ][4/8] acpi-cpufreq: Mark speedstep-centrino ACPI as deprecated

Mark ACPI hooks in speedstep-centrino as deprecated. Change the order in which
speedstep-centrino and acpi-cpufreq (when both are in kernel) will be
added. First driver to be tried is now acpi-cpufreq, followed by
speedstep-centrino.

Add a note in feature-removal-schedule to mark this deprecation.

Signed-off-by: Denis Sadykov <denis.m.sadykov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 24f3c63b301..7ebca0775ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -280,3 +280,25 @@ Why:	Orphaned for ages.  SMP bugs long unfixed.  Few users left
 Who:    Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
 
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+
+What:   ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver
+When:   December 2006
+Why:    Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are
+        functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only
+        difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions.
+        One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of
+        speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq.
+        That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep
+        capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of
+        speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on
+        non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and
+        less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers
+        going out of sync.
+        Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to
+        switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue
+        to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this
+        date.
+
+Who:    Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
+
+---------------------------