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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 81bc51369f5..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,191 +0,0 @@ -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> |