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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 076a2c02adaf..d2af87ba96e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -386,34 +386,6 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> ---------------------------- -What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be - dropped. -When: 2.6.37 or earlier. -Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies - from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these - techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. - These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the - performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware - expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of - years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this - feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the - Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if - technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) - arise. - - Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels - still work fine on VMware's platform. - Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, - Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence - releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. - - For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, - http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html - -Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> - ----------------------------- - What: Support for lcd_switch and display_get in asus-laptop driver When: March 2010 Why: These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the @@ -530,16 +502,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> ---------------------------- -What: old ieee1394 subsystem (CONFIG_IEEE1394) -When: 2.6.37 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/ except init_ohci1394_dma.c -Why: superseded by drivers/firewire/ (CONFIG_FIREWIRE) which offers more - features, better performance, and better security, all with smaller - and more modern code base -Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ----------------------------- - What: The acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs command line option When: 2.6.37 Files: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c @@ -564,6 +526,16 @@ Who: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> ---------------------------- +What: iwlwifi disable_hw_scan module parameters +When: 2.6.40 +Why: Hareware scan is the prefer method for iwlwifi devices for + scanning operation. Remove software scan support for all the + iwlwifi devices. + +Who: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> + +---------------------------- + What: access to nfsd auth cache through sys_nfsservctl or '.' files in the 'nfsd' filesystem. When: 2.6.40 @@ -573,4 +545,3 @@ Why: This is a legacy interface which have been replaced by a more Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> ---------------------------- - |