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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0ba6af02cdaf..6a451f47d40f 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> --------------------------- -What: ieee1394 core's unused exports (CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API) -When: January 2007 -Why: There are no projects known to use these exported symbols, except - dfg1394 (uses one symbol whose functionality is core-internal now). -Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - -What: ieee1394's *_oui sysfs attributes (CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB) -When: January 2007 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/: oui.db, oui2c.sh -Why: big size, little value -Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. When: December 2006 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> --------------------------- -What: find_trylock_page -When: January 2007 -Why: The interface no longer has any callers left in the kernel. It - is an odd interface (compared with other find_*_page functions), in - that it does not take a refcount to the page, only the page lock. - It should be replaced with find_get_page or find_lock_page if possible. - This feature removal can be reevaluated if users of the interface - cannot cleanly use something else. -Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Interrupt only SA_* flags When: Januar 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them @@ -243,6 +215,13 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, --------------------------- +What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS +When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24 +Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> + +--------------------------- + What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers When: 2.6.22 Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old @@ -274,28 +253,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- -What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use - ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented - in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented - vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than - the same. - - Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform - are different, so there will always be a need for - platform-specific drivers. - - So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the - platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same - to the user when they supply the same features. - - hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - -Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for @@ -306,11 +263,18 @@ Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils - Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- +What: ACPI procfs interface +When: July 2007 +Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated + in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. +Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + What: /proc/acpi/button When: August 2007 Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer @@ -319,9 +283,24 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- -What: JFFS (version 1) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. -Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> +What: sk98lin network driver +When: July 2007 +Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver + replaced by the skge driver. +Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation +When: Oct 2007 +Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c +Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001. + tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and + much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no + longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to + use tslib by now. + The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have + it loaded when they don't need/use it. +Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> --------------------------- |