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@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | |||
172 | 172 | ||
173 | --------------------------- | 173 | --------------------------- |
174 | 174 | ||
175 | What: ide-tape driver | ||
176 | When: July 2008 | ||
177 | Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | ||
178 | Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no | ||
179 | reason is an effort no one wants to make. | ||
180 | Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov | ||
181 | <petkovbb@googlemail.com> | ||
182 | |||
183 | --------------------------- | ||
184 | |||
175 | What: libata spindown skipping and warning | 185 | What: libata spindown skipping and warning |
176 | When: Dec 2008 | 186 | When: Dec 2008 |
177 | Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin | 187 | Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin |
@@ -279,3 +289,15 @@ Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system | |||
279 | is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most | 289 | is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most |
280 | trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code. | 290 | trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code. |
281 | Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 291 | Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
292 | |||
293 | --------------------------- | ||
294 | |||
295 | What: init_mm export | ||
296 | When: 2.6.26 | ||
297 | Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to | ||
298 | work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved | ||
299 | by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code | ||
300 | of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such | ||
301 | code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some | ||
302 | out-of-tree driver. | ||
303 | Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | ||