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-What: vm_ops.nopage
-When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
-Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
- forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
- maintain.
-Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
-
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What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment
When: October 2008
Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and
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-What: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system
- layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to
- /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work
- is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
- trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
-Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-
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-
What: init_mm export
When: 2.6.26
Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to