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1 files changed, 38 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0ba6af02cdaf..c585aa8d62b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |||
@@ -50,22 +50,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | |||
50 | 50 | ||
51 | --------------------------- | 51 | --------------------------- |
52 | 52 | ||
53 | What: ieee1394 core's unused exports (CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API) | ||
54 | When: January 2007 | ||
55 | Why: There are no projects known to use these exported symbols, except | ||
56 | dfg1394 (uses one symbol whose functionality is core-internal now). | ||
57 | Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | ||
58 | |||
59 | --------------------------- | ||
60 | |||
61 | What: ieee1394's *_oui sysfs attributes (CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB) | ||
62 | When: January 2007 | ||
63 | Files: drivers/ieee1394/: oui.db, oui2c.sh | ||
64 | Why: big size, little value | ||
65 | Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | ||
66 | |||
67 | --------------------------- | ||
68 | |||
69 | What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. | 53 | What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. |
70 | When: December 2006 | 54 | When: December 2006 |
71 | Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 | 55 | Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 |
@@ -186,18 +170,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | |||
186 | 170 | ||
187 | --------------------------- | 171 | --------------------------- |
188 | 172 | ||
189 | What: find_trylock_page | ||
190 | When: January 2007 | ||
191 | Why: The interface no longer has any callers left in the kernel. It | ||
192 | is an odd interface (compared with other find_*_page functions), in | ||
193 | that it does not take a refcount to the page, only the page lock. | ||
194 | It should be replaced with find_get_page or find_lock_page if possible. | ||
195 | This feature removal can be reevaluated if users of the interface | ||
196 | cannot cleanly use something else. | ||
197 | Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | ||
198 | |||
199 | --------------------------- | ||
200 | |||
201 | What: Interrupt only SA_* flags | 173 | What: Interrupt only SA_* flags |
202 | When: Januar 2007 | 174 | When: Januar 2007 |
203 | Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them | 175 | Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them |
@@ -243,6 +215,13 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, | |||
243 | 215 | ||
244 | --------------------------- | 216 | --------------------------- |
245 | 217 | ||
218 | What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS | ||
219 | When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24 | ||
220 | Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements | ||
221 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | ||
222 | |||
223 | --------------------------- | ||
224 | |||
246 | What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers | 225 | What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers |
247 | When: 2.6.22 | 226 | When: 2.6.22 |
248 | Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old | 227 | Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old |
@@ -274,6 +253,7 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> | |||
274 | 253 | ||
275 | --------------------------- | 254 | --------------------------- |
276 | 255 | ||
256 | <<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | ||
277 | What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) | 257 | What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) |
278 | When: 2.6.21 | 258 | When: 2.6.21 |
279 | Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use | 259 | Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use |
@@ -306,11 +286,18 @@ Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for | |||
306 | the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump | 286 | the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump |
307 | and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: | 287 | and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: |
308 | http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils | 288 | http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils |
309 | |||
310 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 289 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> |
311 | 290 | ||
312 | --------------------------- | 291 | --------------------------- |
313 | 292 | ||
293 | What: ACPI procfs interface | ||
294 | When: July 2007 | ||
295 | Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated | ||
296 | in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. | ||
297 | Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> | ||
298 | |||
299 | --------------------------- | ||
300 | |||
314 | What: /proc/acpi/button | 301 | What: /proc/acpi/button |
315 | When: August 2007 | 302 | When: August 2007 |
316 | Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer | 303 | Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer |
@@ -325,3 +312,25 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. | |||
325 | Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 312 | Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> |
326 | 313 | ||
327 | --------------------------- | 314 | --------------------------- |
315 | |||
316 | What: sk98lin network driver | ||
317 | When: July 2007 | ||
318 | Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver | ||
319 | replaced by the skge driver. | ||
320 | Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | ||
321 | |||
322 | --------------------------- | ||
323 | |||
324 | What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation | ||
325 | When: Oct 2007 | ||
326 | Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c | ||
327 | Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001. | ||
328 | tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and | ||
329 | much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no | ||
330 | longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to | ||
331 | use tslib by now. | ||
332 | The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have | ||
333 | it loaded when they don't need/use it. | ||
334 | Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | ||
335 | |||
336 | --------------------------- | ||