remove Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

The information in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
doesn't apply to the 2.6.16 branch (and most dates were already
in the past.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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-The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
-removed in the kernel source tree.  Every entry should contain what
-exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing
-the work.  When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also
-be removed from this file.
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	devfs
-When:	July 2005
-Files:	fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
-	function calls throughout the kernel tree
-Why:	It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
-	races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
-	against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
-Who:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-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:	drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
-When:	January 2006
-Why:	OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
-Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When:	April 2006
-Files:	include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
-Why:	Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
-	vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
-	VM/XA, Tornado, and K42.  I do not expect anyone to port binary
-	drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
-	are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
-	So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
-	people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
-	of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
-Who:	Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
-When:	November 2005
-Why:	Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
-	more efficient.  You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394
-	access anyway.
-Who:	Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
-When:	July 2006
-Why:	V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
-	series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
-	means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is
-	already available on the main drivers and should be used instead.
-	Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle
-	old calls, replacing to newer ones.
-	Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to
-	communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow
-	V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls.
-Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
-When:	April 2006
-Files:	kernel/panic.c
-Why:	No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
-When:	April 2006
-Files:	kernel/resource.c
-Why:	No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-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>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue)
-When:	December 2005
-Why:	This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent
-	"nfnetlink_queue".  The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old
-	ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle
-	all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0.  Userspace users will have
-	to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue 
-	instead of the current 'libipq'.
-Who:	Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
-When:	January 2006
-Why:	Too low-level interface.  Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
-Who:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
-When:	June 2006
-Why:	Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
-        2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
-	the option should just go away entirely.
-Who:    Arjan van de Ven
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	START_ARRAY ioctl for md
-When:	July 2006
-Files:	drivers/md/md.c
-Why:	Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
-	Alternatives exist
-Who:	NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	au1x00_uart driver
-When:	January 2006
-Why:	The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
-	between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
-	brother on Alchemy SOCs.  The loss of features is not considered an
-	issue.
-Who:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC)
-When:	March 2006
-Why:	deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8)
-Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	pci_module_init(driver)
-When:	January 2007
-Why:	Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver).
-Who:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	I2C interface of the it87 driver
-When:	January 2007
-Why:	The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C
-	probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see
-	bug #5889.)
-Who:	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	mount/umount uevents
-When:	February 2007
-Why:	These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know
-	when a file system has been mounted or unmounted.  Userspace should
-	poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly.
-Who:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What:	Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
-When:	June 2006
-Why:	Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no
-	users have complained indicating there is no more need for these
-	boards.  This should really be considered a last call.
-Who:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>