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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 26414bc87c65..8b1430b46655 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> --------------------------- +What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) +When: December 2005 +Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 + O_DIRECT can be used instead +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> + +--------------------------- + What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() When: April 2005 Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method @@ -66,6 +74,14 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> --------------------------- +What: remove verify_area() +When: July 2006 +Files: Various uaccess.h headers. +Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. +Who: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> + +--------------------------- + What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 @@ -86,6 +102,16 @@ Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> --------------------------- +What: register_serial/unregister_serial +When: September 2005 +Why: This interface does not allow serial ports to be registered against + a struct device, and as such does not allow correct power management + of such ports. 8250-based ports should use serial8250_register_port + and serial8250_unregister_port, or platform devices instead. +Who: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> + +--------------------------- + What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid When: November 2005 Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c @@ -93,3 +119,19 @@ Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names will be available until removal of old names. Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> +--------------------------- + +What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) +When: November 2005 +Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c +Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a + normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel + infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA + control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is + unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the + PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more + difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either + handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new + pcmciautils package available at + http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ +Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> |