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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 1e69a81e99d4..56000b33340b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -541,6 +541,18 @@ Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> ---------------------------- +What: Removing the pn544 raw driver. +When: 3.6 +Why: With the introduction of the NFC HCI and SHDL kernel layers, pn544.c + is being replaced by pn544_hci.c which is accessible through the netlink + and socket NFC APIs. Moreover, pn544.c is outdated and does not seem to + work properly with the latest Android stacks. + Having 2 drivers for the same hardware is confusing and as such we + should only keep the one following the kernel NFC APIs. +Who: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> + +---------------------------- + What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value) When: 3.6 Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This @@ -549,6 +561,15 @@ Who: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> ---------------------------- +What: remove bogus DV presets V4L2_DV_1080I29_97, V4L2_DV_1080I30 and + V4L2_DV_1080I25 +When: 3.6 +Why: These HDTV formats do not exist and were added by a confused mind + (that was me, to be precise...) +Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> + +---------------------------- + What: V4L2_CID_HCENTER, V4L2_CID_VCENTER V4L2 controls When: 3.7 Why: The V4L2_CID_VCENTER, V4L2_CID_HCENTER controls have been deprecated @@ -567,3 +588,27 @@ Why: Remount currently allows changing bound subsystems and replaced with conventional fsnotify. ---------------------------- + +What: KVM debugfs statistics +When: 2013 +Why: KVM tracepoints provide mostly equivalent information in a much more + flexible fashion. + +---------------------------- + +What: at91-mci driver ("CONFIG_MMC_AT91") +When: 3.7 +Why: There are two mci drivers: at91-mci and atmel-mci. The PDC support + was added to atmel-mci as a first step to support more chips. + Then at91-mci was kept only for old IP versions (on at91rm9200 and + at91sam9261). The support of these IP versions has just been added + to atmel-mci, so atmel-mci can be used for all chips. +Who: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: net/wanrouter/ +When: June 2013 +Why: Unsupported/unmaintained/unused since 2.6 + +---------------------------- |