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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 7d3f205b0ba..d05e6243b4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -41,24 +41,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> --------------------------- -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: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN -When: June 2007 -Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface. - Affected are applications which use the deprecated part of libraw1394 - (raw1394_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv, - raw1394_stop_iso_rcv) or bypass libraw1394. -Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - What: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level @@ -129,13 +111,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE_DRIVER -When: options in 2.6.20, code in 2.6.22 -Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements -Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. @@ -206,28 +181,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver -When: December 2006 -Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are - functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only - difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions. - One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of - speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq. - That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep - capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of - speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on - non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and - less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers - going out of sync. - Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to - switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue - to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this - date. - -Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for @@ -258,14 +211,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- -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 @@ -280,25 +225,6 @@ Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> --------------------------- -What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4 -When: in 2.6.23 -Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving - us with no maintainer and lots of bugs. The code should not have - been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's - implementation are blocking more critical core networking - development. It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution - enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs - (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be - handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling - errors impossible too because they get called after we've - totally commited to creating a route object, for example). - This problem has existed for years and no forward progress - has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage - this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it. -Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - ---------------------------- - What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer) When: December 2007 Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several @@ -323,6 +249,14 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- +What: 'time' kernel boot parameter +When: January 2008 +Why: replaced by 'printk.time=<value>' so that printk timestamps can be + enabled or disabled as needed +Who: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> + +--------------------------- + What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 Why: obsolete OSS drivers @@ -348,3 +282,31 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> --------------------------- +What: Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips) +When: November 2007 +Why: Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers. +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: iptables SAME target +When: 1.1. 2008 +Files: net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h +Why: Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour. + Unfixable broken wrt. 32/64 bit cleanness. +Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> + +--------------------------- + +What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories +When: Jun 2008 +Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 + platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining + arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc + tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will + remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms + that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an + interested maintainer. +Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org + +--------------------------- |