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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b6b1f5ab535 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +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: ACPI S4bios support +When: May 2005 +Why: Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is + faster, more reliable, and people are actually using it. +Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> + +--------------------------- + +What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES) +When: July 2005 +Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better + (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the + pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function) +When: September 2005 +Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space + addressabilty (by using a pfn) and supports sparc & sparc64 + iospace as part of the pfn. +Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> |