X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=b67189a8d8d471789629ae23e4c1b6e9e2b713da;hb=61a39b694137cef6059a0714c3b1847aabe53b90;hp=0665cb12bd6650f65f692ab726212deed76422c9;hpb=8bc2bee26bc7ba77eb1ffc3e3282002d9893cf09;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0665cb12bd6..b67189a8d8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -17,32 +17,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - -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 - ---------------------------- - -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 - ---------------------------- - What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) When: December 2005 Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 @@ -51,14 +25,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() -When: April 2005 -Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method - vecors. -Who: Andi Kleen , Christoph Hellwig - ---------------------------- - What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL When: April 2006 Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c @@ -74,14 +40,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney --------------------------- -What: remove verify_area() -When: July 2006 -Files: Various uaccess.h headers. -Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. -Who: Jesper Juhl - ---------------------------- - What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 @@ -102,16 +60,6 @@ Who: Jody McIntyre --------------------------- -What: register_serial/unregister_serial -When: September 2005 -Why: This interface does not allow serial ports to be registered against - a struct device, and as such does not allow correct power management - of such ports. 8250-based ports should use serial8250_register_port - and serial8250_unregister_port, or platform devices instead. -Who: Russell King - ---------------------------- - What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid When: November 2005 Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c