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@@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
49 49
50--------------------------- 50---------------------------
51 51
52What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
53When: June 2007
54Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface.
55 Affected are applications which use the deprecated part of libraw1394
56 (raw1394_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv,
57 raw1394_stop_iso_rcv) or bypass libraw1394.
58Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
59
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61
62What: old NCR53C9x driver 52What: old NCR53C9x driver
63When: October 2007 53When: October 2007
64Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level 54Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
@@ -70,6 +60,7 @@ Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
70 60
71What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. 61What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
72When: December 2006 62When: December 2006
63Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h
73Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 64Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
74 series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough 65 series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
75 means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is 66 means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is
@@ -103,6 +94,7 @@ Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
103What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) 94What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
104When: August 2006 95When: August 2006
105Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c 96Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
97Funcs: kernel_thread
106Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should 98Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should
107 use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from 99 use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
108 implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that 100 implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
@@ -204,28 +196,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
204 196
205--------------------------- 197---------------------------
206 198
207What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver
208When: December 2006
209Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are
210 functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only
211 difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions.
212 One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of
213 speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq.
214 That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep
215 capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of
216 speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on
217 non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and
218 less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers
219 going out of sync.
220 Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to
221 switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue
222 to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this
223 date.
224
225Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
226
227---------------------------
228
229What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace 199What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace
230When: 2.6.21 200When: 2.6.21
231Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for 201Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for
@@ -256,14 +226,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
256 226
257--------------------------- 227---------------------------
258 228
259What: sk98lin network driver
260When: July 2007
261Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
262 replaced by the skge driver.
263Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
264
265---------------------------
266
267What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation 229What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation
268When: Oct 2007 230When: Oct 2007
269Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c 231Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c
@@ -278,25 +240,6 @@ Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
278 240
279--------------------------- 241---------------------------
280 242
281What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4
282When: in 2.6.23
283Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving
284 us with no maintainer and lots of bugs. The code should not have
285 been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's
286 implementation are blocking more critical core networking
287 development. It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution
288 enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs
289 (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be
290 handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling
291 errors impossible too because they get called after we've
292 totally commited to creating a route object, for example).
293 This problem has existed for years and no forward progress
294 has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage
295 this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it.
296Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
297
298---------------------------
299
300What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer) 243What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer)
301When: December 2007 244When: December 2007
302Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several 245Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several
@@ -346,3 +289,18 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
346 289
347--------------------------- 290---------------------------
348 291
292What: Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips)
293When: November 2007
294Why: Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers.
295Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
296
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298
299What: iptables SAME target
300When: 1.1. 2008
301Files: net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h
302Why: Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour.
303 Unfixable broken wrt. 32/64 bit cleanness.
304Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
305
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